Pierres antiques gravées tirées des principaux cabinets de la France.
Elisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648-1711)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1709 - 1728
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3220194
Summary
Contents: first plate is a portrait of Elisabeth Sophie Chéron, with text "Elisabeth Sophia Cheron uxor Jacobi le Hay. Picturae, poeseos, musicae ceterarumque ... Obiit III. Non. Septemb: Anno M.DCCXI. Vixit annos ad 63". Second plate is a portrait of Chéron's maidservant with a cat standing on her shoulders, with text "Trois domestiques de feüe Madame Le Hay, peints d'apres naturae et gravez à l'eau-forte par les Dlles. Anne et Ursule De la Croix". Thereafter are illustrations taken from ancient engraved gems, with classical and mythological scenes and portraits; depicting Achilles' shield as described by Homer, engraved by Cochin after Vleughels; St Cecilia and four other saints, engraved by Elisabeth Chéron after Raphael; and Jupiter, Thetis, Peleus and other Olympian Gods, engraved by Haussard after a drawing by Chéron reproducing a bronze relief. Among these is one seemingly unrelated print, representing the matron of Ephesus engraved after Louis Chéron. All from the "Recueil des pierres antiques gravées" series, engraved ca. 1709-1719 by Ursule et Jeanne de la Croix, Bernard Picart, Jean Audran, Elisabeth Chéron, Charles Simonneau, Nicolas Tardieu, Henri Simon Thomassin, Cochin, after intermediary drawings by Elisabeth Chéron and Ursule de la Croix.
Bibliographic description
[44] leaves of plates (43 single leaves, 1 double leaf) : all ill., ports. ; fol. Running number: 7453. Water-staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "44. Plates" [i.e. count of plates, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; water-staining on boards; sewn on six raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title (partially missing) on brown sheepskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Elisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648-1711) , artist and engraver Jeanne de La Croix (fl.1705-1720), artist and engraver Ursule de La Croix (fl.1705-1720), artist and engraver Charles Louis Simonneau the elder (Orléans 1645 - Paris 1728) , engraver (printmaker) Henri-Simon Thomassin (1687-1741), engraver (printmaker) Jean Audran (Lyon 1667 - Paris 1756), engraver (printmaker) Nicolas Henri Tardieu (1674-1749), engraver (printmaker) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733), engraver (printmaker) Charles Nicolas Cochin (1688-1754), engraver (printmaker) Louis Cheron (1655-1725), artist and engraver Nicolas Vleughels (Paris 1668 - Rome 1737) , artist Haussard, Jean Baptiste, engraver (printmaker)