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Description des principales pierres gravées du Cabinet de S. A. S Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans, premier prince du sang

Illustrated by: Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (French, 1715–1790)
Illustrated by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807)
Illustrated by: Eléanor de Sabran (French, 18th century)
Author: François Arnaud (French, 1721–1784)
Author: Henri Coquille (French, died in 1808)
Publisher: Abbé Géraud de La Chau (French, born in 1750?)
Publisher: Gaspard Michel Leblond (French, 1738–1809)
Publisher: Noël-Jacques Pissot (French, 1724?–1804)
1780–84
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 239 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 33.9 x 21.6 x 6 cm (13 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1705a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Imprimerie de Monsieur, for La Chau, Le Blond, et Pissot, 1780[-1784]

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 542; Ray, French Illustrated Book, 67
Description(Paris: Imprimerie de Monsieur, for La Chau, Le Blond, et Pissot, 1780[-1784]) Folio, two vols.; [v. 1] 168 leaves, plus 103 plates; [v. 2] 116 ll., plus 77 pls.; early nineteenth-century gilt-stamped brown morocco (Bozerian).

Illustrations of antique gems; allegorical frontispiece with portrait of the Duc d'Orléans; decorative and allegorical vignettes and tailpieces.
ProvenanceCollection Pierre Defer (1798-1870) and Henri Dumesnil (1823-1898; collector's mark on title [Lugt 739]; acquired in 1910 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.