Dumesnil, Louis-Claude

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Recueil des decorations de fontaines

[17--]

Pen and black and brown inks, over graphite, on paper.

Binding: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (195 x 243 mm); leaves: 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (186 x 237 mm)

2006.41

Notes:

This album contains forty-one drawings, seventeen of which depict fountains and twenty-four of which show "orchestres."

Inscription:

Inscribed on title-page, in pen and black ink, "Recüeil / Des Decorations De Fontaines Et Orchestes / Qui Ont Etées faittes A Paris, lors du Retour du / Roy le 7 Septembre 1745." Each illustration is accompanied by a handwritten inscription on the opposite page.

Provenance:

Baron Jérome Pichon.

Associated names:

Dumesnil, Pierre-Louis, 1698-1781.
Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896, former owner.

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