Recueil D'Estampes Gravées D'Aprez Les Tableaux De La Galerie Et Du Cabinet De S. E. Mr. Le Comte De Bruhl Premier Ministre De S.M. Le Roi De Pol. Elect. De Saxe. I. Partie Contenant Cinquante Pieces.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2202
Imprint
A Dresde: Chez George Conrad Walther, MDCCLIV.
Physical Description
[iv], xi, [i] p., frontis. (port.), 50 pl. (on 48 leaves); 582 mm. (Folio).
General Note
Pl. 5, 6 are carried on one sheet, as are pl. 7, 8. Eight pl. are double (14, 15, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 46). Pl. 30 is unnumbered.
Contents
[T.p., port.] - Avertissement - Liste des piéces - Description Des Tableaux - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The frontis. portrait of Brühl is signed as painted by Sylvestre and engraved by Balechoux . A few plates carry the names of draughtsmen (M. Osterreich, C. Hutin, S. Torelli). All are signed by engravers (Filloeul, C.F. Boëce, F. Basan, P.E. Moitte, A. Tischler, L. Zucchi, P. Chenu, M. Keyl, Martini, P.F. Tardieu, C.L. Wüst, le C.C., F. Joullain, P.A. Kilian, J.C. Teucher).
The title-page vignette is signed as designed and drawn by Ch. Hutin and engraved by P. Hutin.
The printer is named in the colophon (p. xi): 'Imprimé à Dresde Chez Cretien Henry Hagenmüller'.
References
G. Heres, Dresdener Kunstsammlungen im 18. Jahrhundert (1991); The Splendour of Dresden: five centuries of art collecting [exhibition catalogue] (1978-9).
Summary Note
The publication-date of 1754 appears on the title-page. Earlier publication-dates, and/or imprimts of other publishers, are carried by some plates: port. of Bruhl, 1750; pl. 1, 2 'A Paris chez Basan'; pl. 4, 9, 10, 12, 18, 19, 23, 33, 34, 48 'A Dresde chez P. Resler marchand d'Estampes de la Cour'; pl. 29, 31 'A Paris chez Moitte 1747'; pl. 30 'A Paris Chez Moitte 1748'.
The plates reproduce paintings by Rembrandt, D. Teniers, J. Ruisdal, C. Boys, P. Wouvermans, F. Bol, Vander Neer and Vander Werf, F. Mieris, G. Dou, C. Bega, S. Poulenbourg, Rubens, Valentin, Corneille l'aisne, De la Fosse, Watteau, Lancret, Correggio, An. Carracci, P. Bordone, Caravaggio, Ribera, C. Lotti, Trevisani, L. Jordans, P. de Matthei, D. Gabbiani and J. Angeli. The first, unnumbered plate is a portrait of Bruhl by Sylvestre.
After Bruhl's death in 1763 his art collection was bought by the Empress Catherine II of Russia for the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
The unnumbered plate [30] has been numbered '15' by hand in ink.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Galerie De Bruhl R.A. 1754'.