[Portraits de Nanteuil].
Robert Nanteuil (Rheims 1623 – Paris 1678)
Category
Books
Date
1649 - 1702
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3043762.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1:. ports.;. fol. Accession no. 7267. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: possibly James Brydges, first duke of Chandos (d.1744. His sale catalogue 1747 lists under lot 4268 Nanteuils heads 1679); 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.59. Binding: English russia gilt, about 1740. Cover with undulating scroll roll and deeper border; green and blue lettering and numeration pieces; gilt spine with acorn and other tools; board edges and turn-in with roll repeating three stylised fleur-de-lis ornaments. Edges gilt, combed marble endleaves. Endleaves watermarked. This seems to be a nineteenth-century rebinding.
Makers and roles
Robert Nanteuil (Rheims 1623 – Paris 1678)