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COTELLE, Jean (1607-1676)

Livre de divers ornemens pour plafonds, cintres subaissez, galleries, & autres de l'invention de Jean Cotelle, peintre ordinaire du Roy. Dedié à Madame la Princesse de Guéméné

Paris
L'auteur
ca. 1640

€450 - €600

Folio oblong, engraved title, portrait of Anne de Rohan, dedication leaf, and 19 plates by F. Poilly after Jean Cotelle. The plates are numbered 3-21 (complete). Modern half vellum over marbled boards, black lettering piece on spine. Two owners stamps anciently removed from verso of title-page, a few minor traces of use, but good copy of a rare and beautiful suite

Fine collection of designs for ceilings by J. Cotelle the elder in first edition. Ref. Katalog Berlin 4010. Guilmar, p. 51, 59

Architecture