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Templa
Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
After: Léonard Thiry (Netherlandish (worked in France), active from 1536, died in 1550)
After: Léonard Thiry (Netherlandish (worked in France), active from 1536, died in 1550)
1550
Place of Publication: Orléans, France
Medium/Technique
Set of 35 etchings
Dimensions
Overall: 24 x 18.9 x 1.3 cm (9 7/16 x 7 7/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Ellen Page Hall Fund
Accession Number34.831
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Orléans: the artist, 1550
Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 2352; Geymüller, p. 307; BN, Inventaire 16th, I, pp. 56-57
Description(Orléans: the artist, 1550) Quarto; 35 leaves; modern half black-stamped gray suede, decorated paper boards.
Views and sections of classical temples and churches. This set comes from the "Templa" of 1550, though the title page is missing. Berlin and the BN Inventaire call for title and 35 plates. Twelve of the plates are titled, including the Pantheon (pl. [21]). In order to distinguish this set from two others of "temples," the BN Inventaire refers to this one as the "Moyens temples," and indicates it was derived from Léonard Thiry (though Geymüller did not find proof of such a source).
The graphite notes on the front pastedown are by Philip Hofer, and refer to a manuscript of Ducerceau drawings now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Views and sections of classical temples and churches. This set comes from the "Templa" of 1550, though the title page is missing. Berlin and the BN Inventaire call for title and 35 plates. Twelve of the plates are titled, including the Pantheon (pl. [21]). In order to distinguish this set from two others of "temples," the BN Inventaire refers to this one as the "Moyens temples," and indicates it was derived from Léonard Thiry (though Geymüller did not find proof of such a source).
The graphite notes on the front pastedown are by Philip Hofer, and refer to a manuscript of Ducerceau drawings now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
ProvenanceGeorges Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased by MFA, October 4, 1934.