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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.

Medium
Etchings
Catalogue reference
Compare to Berlin 359, 3461; Guilmard p. 130
Watermark
Caduceus with letters MH
Condition
Fine impressions on full sheets, all but two still stitched together. Pale foxing, most pronounced in the margins, otherwise in good condition.
Size
308 × 223mm
Additional notes

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.

Price
The set of ten $1,800 USD
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