BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE



Author(s) Bosse, Abraham
Title Representations geometrales...
Imprint [Clousier’s widow, P. Aubouyn, J. Villery, P. Émery & N. de Fer], 1684
Localisation ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 793 : 2 GF
Subject Chimneys, Gates, Perspective

French

     The Représentations géométrales, bound after the Traité des manières de dessiner les ordres (Paris, Clousier’s widow, Pierre Aubouyn, Jacques Villery, Pierre Émery and Nicolas de Fer, n.d.) and Des ordres de colonnes, was reprinted in 1684 with the same copperplates as in 1659. Bosse’s address was deleted from the title page and the date was corrected. An additional plate was added at the end of the collection, representing an interior courtyard with outside steps. The book was reprinted again in the 17th century at the presses of Pierre Aubouyn, Pierre Émery and Charles Clousier, then a last time during the next century at the print shop of Claude Jombert.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours – 2013

 

 

Critical bibliography

A. Blum, L’œuvre gravé d’Abraham Bosse, Paris, Morancé, 1924.

G. Duplessis, "Catalogue de l’œuvre de Abraham Bosse", Revue universelle des arts, Paris, 1859.

S. Join-Lambert et M. Préaud (eds.), Abraham Bosse savant graveur, Tours, vers 1604-1676, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France/Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Paris/Tours, 2004, p. 271.

F. Lemerle, "Les livres d’architecture du graveur Abraham Bosse", J.-P. Garric, É. d’Orgeix & E. Thibault (eds.), Le livre et l’architecte, Wavre, Mardaga, 2011, pp. 172-179.

R.-A. Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1939, vol. 1, pp. 471-534