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LEGEAY, Jean Laurent (1710-1786).
Collection de divers sujets de Vases, Tombeaux, Ruines, et Fontaines.
the complete set of 25 etchings, 1767-68, comprising four suites of six plates each and title, good impressions, published by Mond'hare, Paris, 1770, occasional minor surface dirt, pale spotting and light staining, otherwise in good condition, in a modern half calf binding.
Plates: 7 5/8 x 6½ in. (195 x 165 mm.)
Sheets: 14¾ x 9 in. (375 x 230 mm.)
Provenance:
Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1980
French architect, draughtsman and teacher, Jean Laurent Legeay (or Le Geay) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and won the Prix de Rome in 1732. His residence in Rome (1737-42) coincided with the arrival from Venice of Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1740, who was considerably influenced by Legeay's dramatic engravings of the monuments of Roman antiquity. Legeay worked with Piranesi and other engravers on illustrations for guide books on Rome and was an important figure in the cross-currents of influence and ideas between Piranesi and the French scholars in Rome. (see J. Harris: Le Geay, Piranesi and International Classicism in Rome, 1740-1750, Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower, D. Fraser, H. Hibbard and M. J. Lemire (eds.), London, 1967, pp. 189-96.
Collection de divers sujets de Vases, Tombeaux, Ruines, et Fontaines.
the complete set of 25 etchings, 1767-68, comprising four suites of six plates each and title, good impressions, published by Mond'hare, Paris, 1770, occasional minor surface dirt, pale spotting and light staining, otherwise in good condition, in a modern half calf binding.
Plates: 7 5/8 x 6½ in. (195 x 165 mm.)
Sheets: 14¾ x 9 in. (375 x 230 mm.)
Provenance:
Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1980
French architect, draughtsman and teacher, Jean Laurent Legeay (or Le Geay) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and won the Prix de Rome in 1732. His residence in Rome (1737-42) coincided with the arrival from Venice of Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1740, who was considerably influenced by Legeay's dramatic engravings of the monuments of Roman antiquity. Legeay worked with Piranesi and other engravers on illustrations for guide books on Rome and was an important figure in the cross-currents of influence and ideas between Piranesi and the French scholars in Rome. (see J. Harris: Le Geay, Piranesi and International Classicism in Rome, 1740-1750, Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower, D. Fraser, H. Hibbard and M. J. Lemire (eds.), London, 1967, pp. 189-96.