Extremely rare suite of 14 plans, sections and elevations of the Invalides by the engraver, draughtsman, architect and ornamentalist Pierre Lepautre (1652-1716).
It includes :<\/p>\n
1- Plan en rez de chauss\u00e9e de l’eglise de l’hostel royale des Invalides.<\/p>\n
2- Plan au dessus de l’ordre dorique du dehors & du corinthien, au niveau du pied d’estait ou les grandes voutes prennent naissance<\/p>\n
3- Premier plan de la tour du d\u00f4me, des escalliers, & des combles de l’eglise des Invalides ;<\/p>\n
4- 2e plan de la tour du d\u00f4me, au niveau de la balustrade<\/p>\n
5- 3e plan de la tour du d\u00f4me, au niveau du grand attique<\/p>\n
6- 4e plan de la tour du d\u00f4me au niveau du petit attique<\/p>\n
7- 5e plan du comble du d\u00f4me & de la lanterne<\/p>\n
8- El\u00e9vation du portail du d\u00f4me<\/p>\n
9- Coupe au droit de la crois\u00e9e de l’\u00e9glise<\/p>\n
10- Coupe en ligne diagonale de l’\u00e9glise<\/p>\n
11- Coupe sur la longueur de l’\u00e9glise<\/p>\n
12- Coupe du sanctuaire, & veue dederri\u00e8re l’entr\u00e9e de l’\u00e9glise<\/p>\n
13- Coupe de la crois\u00e9e, & de deux des quatre chapelles angulaires de l’\u00e9glise<\/p>\n
14- El\u00e9vation d’une face d’un des c\u00f4t\u00e9z de l’\u00e9glise.<\/p>\n
On 13 April 1687, the Comptes du roi mention a payment of 1,150 to Lepautre for 14 engraved plates. We can assume that these monumental engravings were made during the year 1686.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Ouvrage tr\u00e8s rare, puisqu’il n’y en a eu que tr\u00e8s peu d’exemplaires tirez pour dresser le devis. \u00bb (Bibliotheca Uilenbroukiana, Amsterdam, 1729, n\u00b0 465, pp. 102-103, section \u00ab Livres et estampes de l’impression du Louvre, ou du Cabinet du Roi \u00bb).<\/p>\n
“They were engraved after drawings by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and were not distributed to those who were given a copy of the Description g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l’H\u00f4tel des Invalides. They were therefore difficult to find for a long time. Today these plates can be found at the Chalcographie du Louvre, “Indeed, there is a suite of 14 plans, elevations and sections of the church, the matrices of which are kept at the Chalcographie du Louvre; prints of ten of them can be found in the Department of Prints and Photography at the BnF. These prints are not signed, but they can be compared with a payment in the accounts of the B\u00e2timents du roi to Pierre Lepautre, who received 1,150 livres on 13 May 1687 for engraving \u00ab 14 plans, profiles and elevations of the church”. The payment appears among the “Diverses D\u00e9penses pour la construction de l’\u00e9glise des Invalides”, paid until 1679 from war funds, before the sovereign took them from the account of the B\u00e2timents du roi, as Duplessis asserts, because we know that Pierre Lepautre worked as a draughtsman and engraver in the agency of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, architect of the church of Les Invalides, first architect to the king (from 1681) and superintendent of the King’s Buildings (from 1699). In 1683. Jean II Le Blond acquired a royal privilege to engrave the royal projects by Mansart and others” (see Kristina Deutsch, in: Jean Marot, un graveur d’architecture \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque de Louis XIV, p. 195).<\/p>\n
To our knowledge, no other copy of this extremely rare suite has come up for sale in the last 2 centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Large folio (503 x 415 mm) with 14 engraved plates (6 on one sheet, 4 on 2 sheets and 4 on 3 sheets). Red morocco, covers decorated in the Duseuil style, central royal coat of arms (OHR 2494, iron 10), corner ornament formed by the double ‘L’ interlaced and crowned, spine gilt with raised bands, decorated with title and double ‘L’ interlaced, gilt edges (contemporary binding<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1200,1270,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-79022","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-architecture-2","8":"product_tag-armoured","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"pa_auteur-le-pautre-antoine-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Antoine LE PAUTRE","chapeau":"The extremely rare suite of 14 plates \r\nBound with the arms of Louis XIV","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, pour le Cabinet du Roi, 1687","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n