Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Le Maréchal ferrant, opera comique en un acte

Author: Antoine-François Quétant (French, 1733–1823)
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313–1375)
Author: François Danican Philidor (French, 1726–1795)
Illustrated by: François Marie Isidore Queverdo (French, 1748–about 1808)
Etched by: Marie Thérèse Martinet (French, born about 1731)
Etched by: A. B. Duhamel (French, 1736–after 1800)
Publisher: Claude Jean-Baptiste Hérissant (French, 1719?–1775)
1761
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with six etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 20.2 x 13.5 x 3 cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1529.2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Claude Hérissant, 1761

Description(Paris: Claude Hérissant, 1761) Quarto; 28 leaves, plus 6 plates; modern gilt-stamped red morocco. BOUND with 37.1529.1, .3-.5.

Second edition of comic opera by Quétant, with music by Philidor. The title verso specifies that the subject was drawn from Boccaccio's Decameron.The six plates are engraved by Duhamel and T. Martinet after Quéverdo. Without musical score at end.
ProvenanceBibliothèque S. Bentum [Beutum?], Budapest, at whose sale Lucerne, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 18 November 1926, bought by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.