drawing;
architectural drawing
- Museum number
- 1973,U.1351
- Description
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Château de Boulogne, called Madrid, near the Bois de Boulogne: front elevation with figures in front, and below the ground plan of the chateau, with room names inscribed
Pen and black ink, grey wash, on vellum
- Production date
- 1570 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 518 millimetres
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Width: 749 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of seven drawings (drawn on four sheets) on the Château de Madrid drawn by Du Cerceau for this album; see 1972,U.793 for comment on whole series. The rather broad steps are a curiosity, as they were actually narrower; either Du Cerceau reproduced an earlier project or he worked after a model rather than the actual building.
For further comment see Boudon/Mignot, 'Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau', Paris 2010, pp.58-63.
2006 Exhibition Label:
One of a set of 122 drawings by this leading French architect recording the finest buildings in France. Related etchings were published in Du Cerceau's book, 'Les plus excellents bastiments de France' (1576-79). The drawings were formerly in the Royal Library, presented to the British Museum by George IV.
The building represented was built in 1527-40 for François Ier in the Bois de Boulogne west of Paris, but was demolished in the Revolutionary period at the end of the 18th century.
Lit.: H. Kurita and M. Koshikawa, in exhib. cat., Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 'French drawings from the British Museum: from Fontainebleau to Versailles', 2002, no. 14
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973 Paris, Grand Palais, Ecole de Fontainebleau, cat.111
2002 April-June, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Mus of Art, 'French Drawings from the British Museum'
2002 July-Sep, Tokyo, NM of Western Art, 'French Drawings from the British Museum'
2006 June-Sep, BM, Watteau to Seurat (ex. catalogue)
2010 Feb-May, Paris, Palais de Chaillot, Androuet du Cerceau
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1973,U.1351