• Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (designer)

Détails d'architecture

engraved circa 1566-1570

The etchings in this set include designs for various parts of architectural orders including column bases, capitals, and entablatures.
There is some overlap with prints in Du Cerceau’s 'Détails d’ordres antiques' (notably elements on Plates 007 and 011), however most of the etchings include novel elements drawn from the type of ornament in use in works produced by the First School of Fontainebleau such as armor, musical instruments, and fruit. In purportedly representing architectural elements drawn from antiquity, Du Cerceau introduces a high level of variation and innovation. Some of these details are whimsical, for example a small detail of a dog on the entablature of Plate 002.

Each plate is organized to accommodate the greatest number of variations possible. For example, Plate 12 includes two friezes, one with a series of musical instruments and the other with instruments of war – suggesting that the designs could be adapted to suit each patron’s particular interests.

• pattern drawings
• record drawings

Etchings

plate marks: 20.0 x 14.0 cm sheets: 28.0 x 19.0 cm

DR1990:0047:001-020

• renderings

• pictorial drawings
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- Set of twenty unbound etchings on filigree paper. - All pages have been torn from a binding at either the left or right edge, where there are traces of an orange/red adhesive (?). The opposite edge is sometimes irregularly cropped.

inscribed - on DR1990:0047:015, by a twentieth-century hand ? lower centre: "Repr. en partie Geymuller fig 83 p. 169" Plate 001-020, verso: numbers 001722001-001722020 proceeding sequentially Plate 005, 015, 018, recto in graphite: bottom centre, below image – “13”

• architecture

• ornament
• architectural orders

Contient:

• DR1990:0047:001, Designs for entablatures, capitals and column bases, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:002, Designs for entablature and pediment, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:003, Designs for column bases, ionic capitals, and entablatures, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:004, Designs for cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:005, Designs for cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:006, Designs for capitals and entablatures, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:007, Designs for cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:008, Design for corinthian column, entablature and details, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:009, Designs for entablatures and cornice, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:010, Designs for entablatures, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:011, Designs for an ionic capital, entablatures and column bases, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:012, Designs for entablatures, capitals, cornice and column base, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:013, Designs for entablatures, column bases and capitals, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:014, Designs for cornices, frieze and column base, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:015, Designs for entablatures and cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:016, Designs for entablatures and cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:017, Designs for cornices and column base, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:018, Designs for doric capitals with entablatures, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:019, Designs for entablatures and cornices, engraved circa 1566-1570
• DR1990:0047:020, Design for cornice and entablabture, engraved circa 1566-1570