• Costumes français sous Louis XIV

Language:
  • French
Engraver:
  • Ertinger, Franz, 1640-approximately 1710
  • Scotin, G. (Gérard), 1643-1715
Illustrator:
  • Saint-Jean, J. Dieu De, active 1695
Call number:
  • Oversize 2014-0011F
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 76 leaves of plates, including 3 double-leaf plates and 1 fold-out plate (unfolding to 47 x 40 cm) : chiefly illustrated (engravings) ; 40 cm
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Pictorial works
Description:
  • Plates signed by St. Jean, many undated, with others variously dated.
  • Plates present not-from-life depictions of French nobility, the King, Queen, Dauphin, and men/women "of quality."
  • Three double-fold plates depict women in varying states of undress preparing for bed or a bath; a fold-out plate shows a mounted "Louis Le Grand commanding his army in with Cambray in the background;
  • GAX copy: Collection undated; last engraving in Princeton's volume is signed with the date 1696; engraved dates on other plates range from 1683 to 1696.
  • GAX copy: A collection of 76 engravings, bound together here, showing French nobility, the King, Queen, Dauphin, and men/women "of quality" in various fashions, as well as a few depicting (well-attired) country-people; published variously between 1678 and 1695 by Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, designer, publisher and print-seller.
  • GAX copy: Plates are hand-numbered in ink, with some inconsistencies: unnumbered plate between "63" and "64, with last plate (#75 in this sequence) unnumbered and proceded by "74."
Publisher:
  • [France? : publisher not identified, not before 1696]
Subject:
  • Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715—Clothing—17th century
  • Courts and courtiers—Clothing—France—17th century
  • Clothing and dress—France—Paris—17th century
  • Costume—France—Paris—17th century
  • Women's clothing—France—17th century—Pictorial works
  • France—Courts and courtiers—Clothing—History—17th century
Date:
  • 1696
Alternative:
  • Mode de France
Range label:
  • Logical
  • Digital copy
Binding note:
  • Full mottled calf, gilt-paneled spine with floral design and red morocco spine label: Mode de France; marbled endpapers.
Location:
  • GAX Oversize 2014-0011F
  • GAX Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Oversize 2014-0011F
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/v118rf94k
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