Description du Parnasse françois exécuté en bronze
Subtitle: a la gloire de la France et de Louis le Grand, et a la memoire perpetuelle des illustres poetes et des fameux musiciens françois ...
By: par M. Titon du Tillet ... ; cette description est suivie de diverses piéces en prose & en vers, au sujet de ce monument.
Contributors: Titon du Tillet, Evrard, 1677-1762.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1760
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Garnier, Louis, ca. 1639-1728.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Monuments.; Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- Early works to 1800.; Sculpture, French -- France -- Versailles.; Authors, French -- Monuments.; Musicians -- France -- Monuments.; France -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Plates signed: Largilliere, Tardieu, Crepy, J. Petit, Maisonneuve. Additional engraved head pieces signed: Papillon.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-M² chi², ²A-2G² 2H²(-2H2).
A description of the bronze at the Château de Versailles conceived by Titon du Tillet and executed by Louis Garnier as a monument celebrating French artists, musicians and writers active during the reign of Louis XIV.
"Tableau du Parnasse françois, ou, Liste des personnes qui sont rassemblées sur ce monument jusqu'à la fin de l'année M.D.CC.LVI.": p. [21]-48 (first sequence).
Printed slip mounted on p. 116; printed slip from book dealer's catalog mounted on front fly-leaf.