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Bound Volume, RECUEIL DES OUVRAGES EN SERRURERIE que STANISLAS LE BIEN-FAISANT, Roy de Pologne, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar a fait poser sur la place Royale DE NANCY, à la gloire de Louis le BIEN-AIMÉ, Composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour son Serrurier ordinaire avec un discours sur L’art de Serrurerie et plusieurs autres desseins de Son Invention. Dedié au Roy.
This is a Bound Volume. It was designed by Jean Lamour and print maker: Claude Francois Nicole and Dominique Collin and printed by Jacques Le Roy and dedicatee: Stanislaw I Leszczynski. It is dated 1759–68 and we acquired it in 1920. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
An elaborate frame surrounds the title and the dedication page of an ornamental publication by Jean Lamour (1698-1771), a French ironmonger, blacksmith and master metalworker native to Nancy. This etching is the frontispiece for Recueil des ouvrages en serrurerie (1767), dedicated to Stanislav I Leszczyński, the King of Poland (reg 1704–9), and the Duke of Lorrain and Bar. The design displays a gate topped by flower-filled urns with Stanislav’s coat of arms at the apex of the arch. Mounted on the columns are trophies of war composed of Roman cuirasses, spears, and classical helmets. Below is an allegory of drawing and design as a putto holds up a drawing featuring a scrolling ornament in the style of Lamour while another putti sketches after it. Jean Lamour is known for his wrought-iron gates and railings for Place Stanislas and Hôtel de Ville (city hall) in Nancy. Lamour reveled in the high rococo style, which was characterized by c- and s- curves, sinuous forms inspired by nature, and a profusion of escutcheons. His Recueil was an album of engravings featuring metalwork designs he had made for Stanislav. Such ornamental pattern books were marketed toward fellow artisans and helped the evolution and the dissemination of rococo style across the provinces of France and the European continent.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Drawing, Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies
- pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on white laid paper.
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1938-57-219-a
- Print, Designs for Decorative Ironwork, Plate 96 from Divers dessins de...
- engraving on paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-53
- Print, Three Designs for Decorative Ironwork
- etching and engraving on laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-210-7
Its dimensions are
24.9 x 19.1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
It is inscribed
Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No.139
Cite this object as
Bound Volume, RECUEIL DES OUVRAGES EN SERRURERIE que STANISLAS LE BIEN-FAISANT, Roy de Pologne, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar a fait poser sur la place Royale DE NANCY, à la gloire de Louis le BIEN-AIMÉ, Composé et exécuté par Jean Lamour son Serrurier ordinaire avec un discours sur L’art de Serrurerie et plusieurs autres desseins de Son Invention. Dedié au Roy.; Designed by Jean Lamour; Print Maker: Dominique Collin (French, 1725 – 1781), Claude Francois Nicole (French, ca. 1700 – ca. 1783); Printed by Jacques Le Roy; Dedicatee: Stanislaw I Leszczynski; France; 24.9 x 19.1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-210
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
