drawing;
plan
- Museum number
- 1972,U.894
- Description
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Château de Dampierre, plan showing château and small formal garden surrounded by moat at centre, larger formal gardens at left, a pond at right, parkland at top, further courtyards and plantation at bottom
Pen and black ink with grey wash; on vellum
- Production date
- 1570 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 513 millimetres
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Width: 753 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of seven drawings (on three sheets) on the Château de Dampierre drawn by Du Cerceau for this album; see 1972,U.793 for comment on whole series.
The château was bought by Charles de Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine (1552), who had the existing building embellished by, it is suspected, Primaticcio and Claude de Foucques. The château was completely rebuilt by Hardouin-Mansart in 1682. The drawings appear to have been executed before the Cardinal's death in 1574: the inscriptions do not refer to him as 'feu monsieur le cardinal...' as they do in the 'Excellents Bastiments', published in 1579.
For further comment see Boudon/Mignot, 'Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau', Paris 2010, pp.222-227.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.894