Retables.

(Dolivar, Jean).

About this Item

Aug. Vind. (Augsburg), Jeremias Wolff, (no date, before 1724). Complete suite of fine title and 5 plates, numbered in the plates, Nos. (1)-6, etched by Johann Leonhart Wüst. ca 21,2 x 14,6 cm.*Not in Fuhring or any of the other usual bibliographies. Very rare German edition copied from the original French series 'Nouveau livre d'Autel' (Paris 1690, see: Kat Orn. Berl. No. 3714 and Guilmard 99 - 100). Very elaborate designs for altar retables in baroque style, i.e. for architectural frames enclosing decorated panels above back of altars. Jean (Juan) Dolivar, architect and engraver (Saragossa in Spain in 1641 - Paris? 1692), worked in Paris together with his uncle Jean Le Pautre and after J. Berain. Johann Leonhart Wüst (1666 - 1735) was goldsmith and engraver in Augsburg. - 5 of the plates cut out within plate mark and laid down, plate 5 with ample margins; small defects to blank part of 2 plates, 1 plate thumbed. Blind collector's stamp on 5 plates of Fugger von Glött, Dillingen (Lugt No 2690).[(4441)].

Seller Inventory # 4441

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Retables.