Recueil de plusieurs Figures d'Academie Dessinées d'après Le Naturel Par F. Verdier Peintre ordinaire du Roy Et gravées Par J. Bap de Poilly
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/6059
Imprint
ce vend a Paris: rue St. jacques a la belle Image C.P.R., [1747?]
Physical Description
[18] pl. (incl. t.pl.); 387 mm.
Responsibility Note
The first plate (title plate) is unsigned. All others are signed as designed by F. Verdier and engraved by J. Bap. de Poilly C.P.R. - apart from pl. [8], which is signed as designed by Nicolas Poilly and engraved by 'son frère'.
References
On 'Academy' figures see M. Roland-Michel, Le dessin français au XVIII siècle (1987), p.47-76; J.H. Rubin, Eighteenth-century French life drawing (1977).
Summary Note
All plates show male nudes, possibly representing pagan deities.
François Verdier worked chiefly under Charles Le Brun, painting and designing both Christian and classical subjects.
Binding Note
18th-century half mottled calf, brown watered-cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Academy Figures By Verdier', spine lettered 'R.A.'; spine repaired in 20th century. Bound with one other.
Mythology, Greek - Iconography
Nudes - Men (male humans)
Drawings - France - 18th century
Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century