Live Auction 2758European Noble and Private Collections
A LARGE FACSIMILE MAP OF PARIS
Lot 512

A LARGE FACSIMILE MAP OF PARIS

CIRCA 1950

Closed20 September 2007

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EUR 625

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A LARGE FACSIMILE MAP OF PARIS
CIRCA 1950
After the original engravings leve et desine par Louis Bretez gravé par Claude Lucas et écrit par Aubin. Dessine et engrave sous les ordres de Michel Etienne Turgot. 1739, inscribed to the margin EDITIONS LES YEUX OUVERTS, 157 RUE MONTMARTRE, PARIS 2e, in a moulded oak frame; unexamined out of frame
164 cm. high x 206 wide (overall)

Specialist note

This monumental map is reproduced and printed in a limited edition after the original plates by Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas, these plates are in the collection of the Louvre, Paris.