PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre (1727-1801). Mascarade à la Grecque Dédié à Monsieur de Felino Premier Ministre de S.A.R . Parma: Benigno Bossi 1771 4° (391 x 276mm.). Engraved title, engraved dedication and nine plates by Bossi after Petitot, heightened with white, on blue paper and mounted with black ink framing lines. Contemporary red morocco gilt, spine gilt à la grecque , g.e. Provenance : Count Dimitrievich Sheremetev (armorial bookplate); Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev. A fine copy of Petitot's curious satire of the new style à la greque and neo-classicism. The figures are shown each adorned with architectural elements inspired by the elements of decoration found in the recent excavations at Pompei. Petitot, a French architect and designer born in Lyon in 1727, studied architecture with Soufflot and by 1753 moved to the francophile court of Parma to become architect to the Duke. He represented himself on the last plate in the costume of an Egyptian architect, holding a plan of a church. The engraver Bossi was also born in 1727, studied in Nuremberg and Dresden and lived in Parma from 1760. Cohen-de Ricci 178; Lipperheide Xe2
PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre (1727-1801). Mascarade à la Grecque Dédié à Monsieur de Felino Premier Ministre de S.A.R . Parma: Benigno Bossi 1771 4° (391 x 276mm.). Engraved title, engraved dedication and nine plates by Bossi after Petitot, heightened with white, on blue paper and mounted with black ink framing lines. Contemporary red morocco gilt, spine gilt à la grecque , g.e. Provenance : Count Dimitrievich Sheremetev (armorial bookplate); Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev. A fine copy of Petitot's curious satire of the new style à la greque and neo-classicism. The figures are shown each adorned with architectural elements inspired by the elements of decoration found in the recent excavations at Pompei. Petitot, a French architect and designer born in Lyon in 1727, studied architecture with Soufflot and by 1753 moved to the francophile court of Parma to become architect to the Duke. He represented himself on the last plate in the costume of an Egyptian architect, holding a plan of a church. The engraver Bossi was also born in 1727, studied in Nuremberg and Dresden and lived in Parma from 1760. Cohen-de Ricci 178; Lipperheide Xe2
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