LE NOTRE, BOUTICOURT AND LEBLOND, after, 17TH C.

Parterres de Broderie, a set of ten

Etchings, reverse copies of anonymous etchings originally published by N. Langlois as Jardins à la Française in L’Architecture à la mode, c. 1680. This version is in a French/German edition published by Joseph Friedrich Leopold, undated but on 17th C. paper. Corresponding to plates 1-8 of the first Langlois set of ten and plates 9 and 10 of his second set. Compare to Berlin 359, 3461; Guimard p. 130
Watermark: Caduceus with letters MH

Fine impressions on full sheets, all but two still stitched together. Pale foxing, most pronounced in the margins, otherwise in good condition. 308 x 223mm.
The set of ten $1,800

Gardens depicted include several at the Palais Royal, as well as at the chateaux of Sceaux and Meudon and the Hotels Marsan, Saint-Pouange, Boncherat, and Bouillon.