Research Catalog

Title

Svite des vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot marquis de Felino, ministre de S.A.R. etc et gravée à l'eau forte d'après les desseins originaux de Monsieur le chevalier Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, architecte de S.A.R. l'infant Dom Ferdinand duc de Parme etc et agregé a l'Accademie R. d'architecture de Paris / par Benigno Bossi, stucateur de S.A.R. l'infant duc de Parme etc.

Author

Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792

Publication

Se vend a Parme : chezle meme B. Bossi, [1766?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Petitot, Ennemond Alexandre, 1727-1801
• Du Tillot, Guillaume-Léon

Description

35 prints : etchings; plate marks 23 x 17 cm, on sheets 39 x 28 cm

Summary

• Consists of engraved title page, transcribed above; engraved illustrated title page, where title appears as SVITE DE VASES; two engraved dedication leaves signed respectively "Petitot" and "Bossi"; illustrated dedication leaf, with text "A MONSIEVR LE MARQVIS DE FELINO, 1764"; and 30 full-page etchings depicting designs for vases. Illustrated dedication leaf and plates with vase designs are numbered in medium 1-31 (in earliest state, in upper right above image; later, in upper right of image). No textual content except for title pages, dedications and artists' signatures.
• Engraved illustrated title page and illustrated dedication leaf are signed in medium beneath image: Eques E.A. Petitot in. del., Benignus Bossi scul. Parmae; on illustrated dedication leaf, "1764" follows "Parmae." Vase designs are mostly signed within image: Petitot in. (or in. del.), Bossi sc. (or scul., or f.); a few signed: P. in. (or i.), B. sc. (or f.).
• A variant state of the illustrated dedication leaf has text "À SON EXCELLENCE MONSIEVR DV TILLOT, 1764." Du Tillot was created marquis de Felino on June 20, 1764; therefore variant with "marquis de Felino" is presumably later. Variant states of most other plates are known. See reproductions in Petitot: un artista del Settecento europeo a Parma, 1997, pages 116-119; for further discussion, see "The states of Petitot's and Bossi's Suite de vases," by William Cole, in Print quarterly, v. 10 (1993), pages 156-160.

Alternative Title

• Suite des vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot marquis de Felino, ministre de S.A.R. etc ...
• Svite des vases
• Suite des vases
• Svite de vases
• Suite de vases
• Svite des vases tirée du cabinet de Son Excellence Monsieur Du Tillot marquis de Felino &c. ...

Subject

• Petitot, Ennemond Alexandre, 1727-1801
• Du Tillot, Guillaume-Léon > Art collections
• Vases > Design > Early works to 1800
• Vases in art > Early works to 1800
• Garden ornaments and furniture > Design > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Architectural decorations & ornaments – Italy – 18th century.
• Pattern books – Italy – 18th century.

Note

• New York Public Library copy is third state in Cole's classification.
• Often assigned the date 1764, as the illustrated dedication leaf and plates 12 and 26 are dated in medium 1764 and plate 30 contains the date MDCCLXIV. However, plate 31 is dated 1765 on pedestal of vase, and date of succession of Ferdinand as Duke of Parma (on title page: "S.A.R. l'infant Dom Ferdinand duc de Parme") is July 18, 1765. Approximate date of publication derived from date of appointment of Bossi as court stuccoist, April 1, 1766 (on title page: "stucateur de S.A.R. l'infant duc de Parme").
• The first three vase designs (no. 2-4) were realized in marble by Jean-Baptiste Boudard in 1756-1757 and placed in the Parco ducale, Parma, where they are still displayed; the fourth (no. 5) was realized by Boudard in 1765 for the Casino dello Stradone in Parma. See Feste, fontane, festoni a Parma nel Settecento, 1989, pages 84-86 (essay by Paul Bédaria, catalog entries 68-69), 90-96 (catalog entries 81-110).

Indexed In (note)

• Cohen, H. Guide de lamateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (6e éd.)
• Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin

Binding (note)

• Contemporary red morocco, rebacked, original spine laid down; green morocco spine label.

Call Number

MQZ+ (Petitot) (Petitot, E. A. Suite des vases tirée du cabinet)

OCLC

40622333

Author

Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792, etcher, publisher.

Title

Svite des vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot marquis de Felino, ministre de S.A.R. etc et gravée à l'eau forte d'après les desseins originaux de Monsieur le chevalier Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, architecte de S.A.R. l'infant Dom Ferdinand duc de Parme etc et agregé a l'Accademie R. d'architecture de Paris / par Benigno Bossi, stucateur de S.A.R. l'infant duc de Parme etc.

Imprint

Se vend a Parme : chezle meme B. Bossi, [1766?]

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

volume

Indexed In:

Cohen, H. Guide de lamateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (6e éd.), t. 1, column 178

Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, entry 1081

Binding

Contemporary red morocco, rebacked, original spine laid down; green morocco spine label. NN

Place of Publication

Italy Parma.

Added Author

Petitot, Ennemond Alexandre, 1727-1801, artist.

Du Tillot, Guillaume-Léon, dedicatee.

Research Call Number

MQZ+ (Petitot) (Petitot, E. A. Suite des vases tirée du cabinet)