print
- Museum number
- 1850,0527.193
- Title
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Series: Le magnifique château de Meudon
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Series: Topographie françoise
- Description
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The château of Meudon, after Chastillon: six figures and a horseman in the courtyard of a U-shaped mansion, with a tower marking each corner
Engraving
- Production date
- 1600-1641 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 117 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Fron 'Topographie françoise ou représentations de plusieurs villes, bourgs, chateaux, forterins, vestiges d'antiquités, maisons modernes et autres du royaumes de France sur les desseins du defunct Claude Chastillon', a series of plates representing French buildings engraved by several engravers after Claude Chastillon and first published by Jean Boisseau in 1641 (second edition, 1648; third edition, 1655; the latter published by Louis Boissevin).
Chastillon had started working on publishing his drawings when he died in 1616. Parisian publisher Jean Boisseau bought the plates which had already been engraved after Chastillon's designs (by Mérian, Léonard Gaultier, J. de Weer), and the remaining drawings. Boissieu hired a few artists to engrave the latter, but at the exception of Isaac and Nicolas Briot, these artists remain anonymous (their plates however are listed under Claude Chastillon in the IFF). It is also possible that the plates engraved by the Briot brothers had been engraved before, and bought by Boisseau to be included in the set.
If there was a text accompanying the plates, it has not been discovered.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- See comment to 1850,0527.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0527.193
