BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     This posthumous edition, undated, a collection of sixty engravings, had several print runs. In his presentation, Jombert, the printer, speaks of the “architectural works that Sir Le Pautre left us”. The texts accompanying the plates are traditionally attributed to Augustin-Charles d’Aviler. A first collection of thirty plates supplemented by two leaves with a dedication and a preface had come out in 1652 entitled Desseins de plusieurs palais, a title which appears here in the third engraving, under the portrait of the author. The plates supplementing this core come from undated groups, the Desseins d’architecture d’Anthoine Le Paultre représentant les plans & élévations de l’hotel de Fontenay-Mareuille (commented upon in the “Discours cinquième”) and the Plans et élévations du corps de l’Église du Port-Royal (the subject of the “Discours huitième”). Les œuvres d’architecture were reprinted around 1700 by Jombert.

Yves Pauwels (Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2013

Critical bibliography

R. W. Berger, Antoine Le Pautre. A French Architect of the Era of Louis XIV, New York University Press, College Art Association of America, 1969.

M. Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français, Graveurs du XVII^e siècle, Antoine Lepautre, Jacques Lepautre et Jean Lepautre, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1993, XI, 1.

J.-M. Thiveaud, Antoine le Paultre (1621-1679). Thesis, École Nationale des Chartes, 1970 (summary in Positions des thèses de l’École des Chartes, 1970, pp. 215-223).

J.-M. Thiveaud, “Antoine Lepautre 1621-1691, Architecte de la chapelle de Port-Royal de Paris”, Chroniques de Port Royal, 22-23, 1974.