Monographie Du Palais De Fontainebleau Dessinée Et Gravée Par M. Rodolphe Pfnor Accompagnée D'Un Texte Historique Et Descriptif Par M. Champollion-Figeac Bibliothécaire Au Palais Impérial De Fontainebleau Chevalier De La Légion D'Honneur, Etc. - Premier (Deuxième) Volume -

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/4486

Variant Title

Chateaux De La Renaissance

Imprint

Paris: A. Morel Et Cie, Éditeurs 13, Rue Bonaparte -, M D CCC LXIII

Physical Description

2 vols.; 618 mm. (Folio.)

General Note

Vol. I: [8], 20 p., [66] pl.: illus. - Vol. II: [8], 11, [1] p., [72] pl.: illus. (Most plates in both volumes carry a number, but not in numeric order, and described in the Tables des Planches as 'Nos. De Publication'.)

Contents

Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - Table Des Planches Contenues Dans Le Premier Volume - [Text] - [Plates]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p., Table Des Planches Contenues Dans Le Deuxième Volume - [Text]; [colophon] - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

Most plates are signed as drawn by R. Pfnor, engraved by R. Pfnor, F. Obermayer, Ed. Obermayer, E. Lebel, Boulay, A. D'Anguy, J. Penel, Félix Penel, W. Bayrer, A.L. Szretter, Ch. Bury, L. Massard, V. Thirion, J. De Garron, J. Sulpis, Lecocq (or Le Coq), or (chromo)lithographed by Oberlies or Pralon, and printed by Lemercier or F. Chardon aîné.

Almost all carry the publishers' imprint of A. Morel et Cie.

Most in-text illustrations and decorations are signed as drawn by R. Pfnor and engraved by Dulos.

The text printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophon as J. Claye.

References

I. Dunlop, Royal palaces of France (1985), p.31-81; J.J. Leveque, L'Ecole de Fontainebleau (1984); H. Zerner, L'Ecole de Fontainebleau: gravures (1969).

Summary Note

A variant title appears on the half-title pages: 'Chateaux De La Renaissance - Renaissance Française XVIe Siècle - XVIIe Siècle'.

The work describes the château made for Francis I by Gilles Le Breton and decorated by Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Nicolo dell'Abate. Further decoration was carried out under Henri IV by B. Tremblay and M. Fréminet, and by others from the 17th to the 19th century.

Most plates include a scale bar. Five plates are printed in color.

Provenance

The front pastedown is inscribed 'S:A:H' (i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81).

Binding Note

19th-century half green morocco, green cloth-covered boards; spines lettered 'Monographie Du Palais De Fontainebleau. Pfnor. - I. (II.)'

Name as Subject

Subject

Architecture - Architecture detail - Interior decoration - Palaces - Châteaux - France - Fontainebleau - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Art history - Plans - Views - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Chromolithographs - Colour printing - France - 19th century

Contributors

Rudolf Pfnor, draughtsman, engraver
Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac
Ed. Obermayer, engraver
Jules Penel, engraver
Felix Penel, engraver
J. Sulpis, engraver
Léopold Massard, engraver
F. Chardon ainé, intaglio printer
Rose-Joseph Lemercier, intaglio printer
Francesco Primaticcio, source artist
Jules Claye, printer
A. Morel et Compagnie (Paris), publisher