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Jacques-Francois Blondel's Architecture Francoise
Architecture Francoises Ou Recueil de Plans, Elevations, Coupes et Profils des Eglises, Maisons Royales, Palais, Hotels et Edifices Les Plus Considerables de Paris... . Paris: Chrles-Antoine Jombert, Libraire du Roi pour le Genie & l'Artillerie, a l'Image Notre-Dame, 1752, Tome Second, 148 engravings
This volume of masterful folio architectural engravings are from Jacques-Francois Blondel's work Architecture Francoises Ou Recueil de Plans, Elevations, Coupes et Profils des Eglises, Maisons Royales, Palais, Hotels et Edifices Les Plus Considerables de Paris... . It was published in Paris between 1738 and 1756.
Blondel began his career as an architectural engraver and developed into a prominent architect. "Blondel was the most significant French architectural educator of the eighteenth century.....his objective was to establish design principles for domestic architecture that correspond to the classical principles already in practice for civil structures," (Millard 1993, p. 25). He began to teach at the Ecole des Arts in Paris in 1740, and influenced many prominent architects of the period. In 1755, Blondel was appointed the official architect for King Louis XV.
The prints are on fine chain-link paper. The prints vary greatly in size.