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Auction archive: Lot number 417

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d1657) Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emble...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
Auction archive: Lot number 417

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d1657) Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emble...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
Beschreibung:

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d.1657). Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emblematicè expressa per Illustrum ac Reuer . Antwerp: Joannes Cnobbar, 1631.
BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d.1657). Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emblematicè expressa per Illustrum ac Reuer . Antwerp: Joannes Cnobbar, 1631. Oblong 16 o (73 x 97 mm). Half-title. Engraved title and 94 emblematic engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Contemporary black morocco gilt; red cloth slipcase. Provenance : Mexborough (pencil note on flyleaf); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1982. FIRST EDITION. An edition with Flemish text also appeared in the same year. Educated by Jesuits, Antoine de Bourgougne's emblematic works linked the Jesuit emblem books with literature of a popular kind, aimed at a literate middle class and using a vernacular language. His footnotes reveal his Jesuit background, citing at times Aldrovandus and others as authorities for the personality traits he ascribes to animals in his allegories. The unknown artist of the engravings was clearly influenced by Callot's miniature work. Landwehr, Low Countries 69; Praz, p. 292 (incorrect plate count); Rosenwald 1454.

Auction archive: Lot number 417
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d.1657). Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emblematicè expressa per Illustrum ac Reuer . Antwerp: Joannes Cnobbar, 1631.
BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (d.1657). Linguae Vitia et Remedia Emblematicè expressa per Illustrum ac Reuer . Antwerp: Joannes Cnobbar, 1631. Oblong 16 o (73 x 97 mm). Half-title. Engraved title and 94 emblematic engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Contemporary black morocco gilt; red cloth slipcase. Provenance : Mexborough (pencil note on flyleaf); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1982. FIRST EDITION. An edition with Flemish text also appeared in the same year. Educated by Jesuits, Antoine de Bourgougne's emblematic works linked the Jesuit emblem books with literature of a popular kind, aimed at a literate middle class and using a vernacular language. His footnotes reveal his Jesuit background, citing at times Aldrovandus and others as authorities for the personality traits he ascribes to animals in his allegories. The unknown artist of the engravings was clearly influenced by Callot's miniature work. Landwehr, Low Countries 69; Praz, p. 292 (incorrect plate count); Rosenwald 1454.

Auction archive: Lot number 417
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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