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1920

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Book, Album of Prints: Ornament Designs Invented by Jean Berain, 1711

This is a Book. It was designed by Joseph Vivien and Jean Bérain the Elder and print maker: Jacques-François Bénard, Claude Duflos, Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, Suzanne-Elisabeth Silvestre, Marguerin Daigremont, Jean-Louis Baujan, Daniel Marot, Jean Le Pautre, Juan Dolívar, Pierre Giffart and Jean Mariette and published by Jacques Thuret, Marguerite Gastelier and La Veuve de Ligny. It is dated 1711 and we acquired it in 1920. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It has the following markings

Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Leon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 22.

Cite this object as

Book, Album of Prints: Ornament Designs Invented by Jean Berain, 1711; Designed by Jean Bérain the Elder (French, 1640–1711), Joseph Vivien (French, 1657–1734); Print Maker: Claude Duflos (French, 1665–1727), Suzanne-Elisabeth Silvestre (French, 1694–before 1738), Jacques-François Bénard (French, 16..–1751), Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin (French, 1671–1716), Marguerin Daigremont (French, 16..– 17..), Juan Dolívar (Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692), Pierre Giffart (Franch, 1643–1723), Jean Mariette (1660–1742), Jean Le Pautre (French, 1618–1682), Jean-Louis Baujan (French, 1676–17..), Daniel Marot (French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752); Published by Jacques Thuret (French, 1669–1738), Marguerite Gastelier (French, 16..–1698), La Veuve de Ligny (French, active seventeenth century); France; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-201

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