![PÉRELLE, Gabriel (1603-77) and PÉRELLE, Adam (1638-1695). Vues de Paris. Together with: Vues des plus belles maisons de France, and Vues d'Italie. Paris: Nicolas Langlois, n.d. [but c.1670-1675].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10456_0113_000(perelle_gabriel_and_perelle_adam_vues_de_paris_together_with_vues_des113847).jpg?w=1)
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PÉRELLE, Gabriel (1603-77) and PÉRELLE, Adam (1638-1695). Vues de Paris. Together with: Vues des plus belles maisons de France, and Vues d'Italie. Paris: Nicolas Langlois, n.d. [but c.1670-1675].
7 parts in one volume, oblong 2° (282 x 380mm). Two leaf contemporary manuscript index bound-in at end. 252 engraved plates distributed as follows: I: engraved title and 23 views on 19 plates; II: engraved title and 45 plates; III: engraved title and 36 views on 29 plates; IV: engraved title, folding map, and 42 plates; V: engraved title and 56 views on 52 plates, one of these folding; VI: 41 plates, one of these with a title vignette; VII: engraved title and 17 plates. (One plate with tear reaching into the caption, some expertly repaired tears including one in the title of II and another in the folding map of IV.) Full green morocco by Lortic, covers with a gilt triple filet, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, two of these lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: Mouradian (bookplate with the motto ‘On abuse du vrai’).
A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF 252 ENGRAVED PLATES BY GABRIEL AND ADAM PERELLE: THEY FEATURE VIEWS OF PARIS, VERSAILLES AND CHANTILLY, AS WELL AS OF THE MAIN FRENCH CHÂTEAUX OF THE TIME WITH A FEW VIEWS OF ROME.
The foreground of each view is enlivened by various typical figures: street vendors, horse-riders, peasants, soldiers, acrobats, carriages, etc. The views of Paris are particularly fine and show daily life during the reign of Louis XIV.
Followers of Jacques Callot, under the double influence of Flemish and Italian art, Gabriel Pérelle (1603-1697) and his son Adam were the leading figures of 17th-century French landscape art.
Most copies of the Pérelles' views vary somewhat in composition. This one includes the following suites (note that 39 of the plates include two engraved views):
Vues des belles maisons de France [i.e. Paris views]: 20 plates including title, 22 views and 1 map.
Les places, portes, fontaines, églises et maisons de Paris: 46 plates including title, 43 views and 2 maps.
Veües des belles maisons des environs de Paris: 30 plates including title and 36 views of Vincennes, Conflans, Saint-Maur, Saint-Cloud, Meudon, etc.
Veües des plus beaux endroits de Versailles: 44 plates including title, 37 views and 8 plans (one folded). In addition to the views of Versailles are views of Clagny and Marly.
Veües des belles maisons de France: 53 plates including title, 1 folding plan and 55 views of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sceaux, Raincy, Choisy, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, etc.
Diverses Veües de Chantilly: 41 plates including title, 59 views and 3 plans.
Veües de Rome et des environs: 18 plates including title and 17 views.
Also includes a view of San Marco square in Venice and the Escurial in Spain.
A very fine copy with crisp and wide-margined plates.
Fowler, Architectural Collection, 245 (202 plates); Berlin Katalog I, 2483; Soultrait 17th century 230.
7 parts in one volume, oblong 2° (282 x 380mm). Two leaf contemporary manuscript index bound-in at end. 252 engraved plates distributed as follows: I: engraved title and 23 views on 19 plates; II: engraved title and 45 plates; III: engraved title and 36 views on 29 plates; IV: engraved title, folding map, and 42 plates; V: engraved title and 56 views on 52 plates, one of these folding; VI: 41 plates, one of these with a title vignette; VII: engraved title and 17 plates. (One plate with tear reaching into the caption, some expertly repaired tears including one in the title of II and another in the folding map of IV.) Full green morocco by Lortic, covers with a gilt triple filet, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, two of these lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: Mouradian (bookplate with the motto ‘On abuse du vrai’).
A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF 252 ENGRAVED PLATES BY GABRIEL AND ADAM PERELLE: THEY FEATURE VIEWS OF PARIS, VERSAILLES AND CHANTILLY, AS WELL AS OF THE MAIN FRENCH CHÂTEAUX OF THE TIME WITH A FEW VIEWS OF ROME.
The foreground of each view is enlivened by various typical figures: street vendors, horse-riders, peasants, soldiers, acrobats, carriages, etc. The views of Paris are particularly fine and show daily life during the reign of Louis XIV.
Followers of Jacques Callot, under the double influence of Flemish and Italian art, Gabriel Pérelle (1603-1697) and his son Adam were the leading figures of 17th-century French landscape art.
Most copies of the Pérelles' views vary somewhat in composition. This one includes the following suites (note that 39 of the plates include two engraved views):
Vues des belles maisons de France [i.e. Paris views]: 20 plates including title, 22 views and 1 map.
Les places, portes, fontaines, églises et maisons de Paris: 46 plates including title, 43 views and 2 maps.
Veües des belles maisons des environs de Paris: 30 plates including title and 36 views of Vincennes, Conflans, Saint-Maur, Saint-Cloud, Meudon, etc.
Veües des plus beaux endroits de Versailles: 44 plates including title, 37 views and 8 plans (one folded). In addition to the views of Versailles are views of Clagny and Marly.
Veües des belles maisons de France: 53 plates including title, 1 folding plan and 55 views of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sceaux, Raincy, Choisy, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, etc.
Diverses Veües de Chantilly: 41 plates including title, 59 views and 3 plans.
Veües de Rome et des environs: 18 plates including title and 17 views.
Also includes a view of San Marco square in Venice and the Escurial in Spain.
A very fine copy with crisp and wide-margined plates.
Fowler, Architectural Collection, 245 (202 plates); Berlin Katalog I, 2483; Soultrait 17th century 230.
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