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Title:

A kingdom of images : French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715 / edited by Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach.

Publisher:

Getty Research Institute,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Subject:

Prints, French--17th century--Exhibitions.
Prints, French--18th century--Exhibitions.
Prints, French.
1600 - 1799
Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

Fuhring, Peter, editor.
Marchesano, Louis, editor.
Mathis, Rémi, editor.
Selbach, Vanessa, editor.
Getty Research Institute, host institution.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, host institution.

Other Titles:

Images du grand siècle.

Notes:

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition A Kingdom of Images: French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from 16 June to 6 September, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, from 2 November 2015 to 31 January 2016 with the title Images du Grand Siècle: l'estampe française sous Louis XIV, 1660-1715"--Verso of title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-316) and indexes.

Contents:

The arts in the service of the king's glory / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Printmaking under Louis XIV / Maxime Préaud -- What is a print? The fabrication of images / Vanessa Selbach -- What is a printmaker? / Rémi Mathis -- Publishers, sellers, and the market / Peter Fuhring -- Collectors and collecting prints / Véronique Meyer -- On the critical fortune of Girard Audran and Gérard Edelinck / Louis Marchesano.

ISBN:

1606064509
9781606064504

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894183658

LCCN:

2014040358

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)