- Also known as
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Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau
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primary name: Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet
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other name: Androuet, Jacques called Du Cerceau
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other name: Ducerceau, Jacques Androuet
- Details
- individual; architect; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; French; Male
- Life dates
- c.1520-1586
- Biography
- Jacques Androuet, called Du Cerceau from the sign on his father's wine shop in Paris, and now standardly referred to as Du Cerceau. Architect, draughtsman and etcher. Worked in Orléans, active in Paris from 1559, but fled c.1563/64 following the start of the Wars of Religion (Du Cerceau was a Huguenot) and for a while settled in Montargis under the patronage & protection of Renée de France. Designed and etched numerous ornament prints, including patterns for metalwork, enamels and furniture, and architectural illustrations published in a number of volumes. The most important is 'Les plus excellents bastiments de France' (2 vols., 1576-1579), and the BM possesses a series of vellum drawings related to these.
- Bibliography
- Françoise Boudon & Claude Mignot, 'JADC, les dessins des Plus Excellents Bâtiments de France', Paris 2010 (publication of the BM drawings)
Jean Guillaume (ed.), 'JADC', Paris, Cité de l'Architecture, 2010 (with a summary unnumbered listing of the prints by Peter Fuhring)
IFF (forthcoming)
