CARMONTELLE, [Louis CARROGIS] (1717-1806)

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Los 195 | CARMONTELLE, [Louis CARROGIS] (1717-1806)
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CARMONTELLE, [Louis CARROGIS] (1717-1806)

Jardin de Monceau, près de Paris: appartenant a Son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le duc de Chartres. Paris: M. Delafosse, Née et Masquelier, 1779.

First edition of this very rare publication planned and written by Carmontelle, the landscape designer who created the garden for the Duke of Chartres, published in the same year as the garden was completed. It includes, all with excellent contemporary hand-colouring, a plan of the garden (today Parc Monceau in Paris), and the 17 engraved plates which illustrate it from various perspectives recommending to the visitor the manner in which to walk around it. The plates were engraved by several Parisian engravers after Carmontelle's drawings, including Pierre Gabriel Berthault (1737-1831) and Jacques Couché (c1750-1835). In designing the garden, Carmontelle broke with many of the fashions then prevalent in landscape design, taking inspiration instead from Japanese promenade gardens and insisting on the incorporation of illusion and fantasy. This innovation was the subject of much criticism, and the garden became known as the Folie de Chartres. When Thomas Blockie succeeded Carmontelle not long after in 1781, the garden was substantially altered and, though features of Carmontelle's original designs remain, this publication is one of the few surviving records of his original vision (see Laurence Chatel de Brancion, Carmontelle au jardin des illusions, Paris: Hayot, 2003, pp. 119-35). Bobins V, 1557.



Large folio (512 x 383mm). 17 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand and a general plan of the garden, with a loosely inserted 'Gages' from the Duc D’Orleans printed on vellum, for the sum of 450 livres, dated 1885, and inscribed by Carmontelle. Late 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with a dark burgundy label. Provenance: G. de Berny (bookplate) — Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893, French architect and collector; bookplate) — Francis Kettaneh (1897-1976; bookplate).





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