Mausolée au gisant - Lepautre Jean - Leblond Jean I

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Lepautre Jean

• Lieu de naissanceParis
• Date de naissance1618
• Lieu de décèsParis
• Date de décès1682
• Notice biographiqueDesigner and engraver. He was active as a printmaker from 1643 but was most prolific in the 1660s. His output was prodigious, with 2348 prints having been recorded, and his range of subjects was extremely broad: interior decoration, including specific studies for bed alcoves, chimney-pieces (see Chimney-piece, fig. 2), ceilings, wallpapers, furniture, friezes, vases, trophies, tapestry, garden ornament and grottoes were all explored in detail and executed with remarkable facility. He was equally at home delineating landscape and the human figure. Le Pautre’s engravings are notable for their richness and their spirited and vivacious conception. Bernini held him in high respect, and clearly the admiration was returned. This is most evident in Le Pautre’s set of engravings devoted to garden ornaments, which have elaborately ornamented borders that exhibit the same plasticity and movement found in Bernini’s sculptures. Le Pautre’s knowledge of Italian art was probably acquired second-hand: in 1645 he engraved a series of drawings of antique and Baroque ornament made by his teacher, Adam Philippon, in Italy. In 1670 he is recorded as being in the employ of the crown, and in 1677 he was elected to the Académie Française as a dessignateur and graveur. Many of his works were reprinted in 1751 by the publisher Jombert. According to Guilmard, Le Pautre was responsible for instigating the Louis XIV style, the grandiose and sumptuous character of which is evident in his prints. Examples of his work include Vases ou burettes à la romaine (Paris, [c. 1660]), published by Nicolas Langlois, the six plates depicting L’Entrée triomphante de leurs majestez Louis XIV, roy de France, et Marie Thérèse d’Austriche son espouse, dans la ville de Paris (Paris, 1662) and the series Alcôves à l’italienne (Paris, 1665) and Alcôves à la romaine (Paris, [c. 1670]) and Vases à l’antique (Paris, [c. 1675]), all published by Pierre Mariette. A particularly splendid series is the group of five large engravings for the commemorative volume Les Divertissements de Versailles, 1674 (Paris, 1676).
  
  WRITINGS
  Oeuvres d’architecture, 3 vols (Paris, 1751)
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  D. Guilmard: Les maîtres ornemanistes (Paris, 1880), i, pp. 65–76
  Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (Berlin and Leipzig, 1939), i and ii
  R. Timm: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Zauber des Ornaments (Berlin, 1969), pp. 38, 64, 91, 93, 98, 122
  S. Jervis: The Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers (London, 1984), pp. 293–4
  P. Jean-Richard: Ornemanistes du XVe au XVIIe siècle au Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1987)
  M. Préaud: Bibliothèque Nationale: Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVII siècle, xi (Paris, 1993), pp. 56–368
  
  Article rédigé par Elaine Evans Dee
  Groveart 2006.

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Paris

Editeur

Leblond Jean I

• Lieu de naissanceParis
• Date de naissance1590 : vers
• Lieu de décèsParis
• Date de décès1666
• Notice biographiquePeintre, éditeur et marchand d'estampes
  
  - 1636 : rue Saint-Denis, "A la Pomme d'or"
  - xxxxx : rue Saint-Denis, "Au Pavillon royal",
  - 1648 : rue Saint-Denis, "A la Cloche"
  - 1650 : rue Saint-Denis, "A la Cloche d'argent"

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Paris

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à gauche : le Blond Auec Priuilege.

Gravure à l'eau-forte

H. à la cuvette en mm : 189

L. à la cuvette en mm : 130

H. du montage en mm : 485

L. du montage en mm : 320

Préaud (Maxime), Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, t.XII [Jean Lepautre (deuxième partie)], Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1999.

Préaud (Maxime), Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, t.XII [Jean Lepautre (deuxième partie)], Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1999.

IFF 2146.

Herman Sandrine, Estampes françaises du XVIIe siècle. Une donation au musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Editions du CTHS, Paris, 2008

Herman Sandrine, Estampes françaises du XVIIe siècle. Une donation au musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Editions du CTHS, Paris, 2008

n°1323.2., p.383

1999.15 Donation Thuillier

Cliché ville de Nancy, Patrice Buren

TH.99.15.3130

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