03 — ARTWORK
Drawings
COURTONNE, Jean-Baptiste, the Younger · 1739 →
- MEDIUM
- Pen and ink and wash on paper
- TYPE
- Study
PALETTE
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THIS REPRODUCTION
- FILE
- 1538 × 700 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
The picture shows two drawings, Scale Drawing of the Library in Hôtel du Lude (top); and Scale Drawing of the Natural History CabinetA small, private room where works of art, valuables and curiosities were kept and contemplated at leisure; over time the term was used for the collections themselves. Renaissance cabinets played an important role in the development of museums and art galleries. or Cabinet of Preserved Animals and Insects in the Hôtel du Lude (bottom).
The Hôtel du Lude was a mansion in the aristocratic Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris (demolished in 1861). It was bought in 1726 by Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson, a well-to-do merchant from the southern French city of Montpellier, and his son had it remodeled between 1726 and 1728 by the architects Jean Baptiste Leroux (1677-1746), Jean Courtonne (1671-1739), father of Jean Baptist Courtonne the Younger, and François Debias-Aubry (d. 1755).
OTHER WORKS BY JEAN-BAPTISTE COURTONNE THE YOUNGER
The archive catalogues no further works by this artist.
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