drawing;
architectural drawing
- Museum number
- 1972,U.838
- Description
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Château de Verneuil, two studies of ornamental chimney-pieces, with the one at left with scrolling acanthus leaf decoration, and the one at right flanked by pilasters carved with terminal figures of cross-armed satyrs, surmounted by trophies of war, and with two slaves and flags on the curved pediment above
Pen and black ink with grey wash; on vellum
- Production date
- 1570 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 515 millimetres
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Width: 747 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of eleven drawings (on nine sheets) on the Château de Verneuil drawn by Du Cerceau for this album; see 1972,U.793 for comment on whole series and 1972,U.830 for more detail on Verneuil and the various projects.
This detail of the decoration of the château does not figure in Du Cerceau's 'Excellents Bastiments de France'.
For further comment see Boudon/Mignot, 'Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau', Paris 2010, pp. 106-119.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.838