Arabesques
By: Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Paris?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Influence; Grotesque; Early works to 1800; Arabesques; Decoration and ornament
Work titles: Grotesques
Notes: Title from spine.

Includes 60 mounted "petites arabesques" plates from his Grotesques, 2nd ed., Paris, 1562, and 36 plates from the 1st ed. of his Grotesques, Orléans, 1550.

Androuet du Cerceau's designs influenced by those of Nicoletto da Modena.

Plates are unnumbered, suggesting an earlier state than the numbered plates reprinted by Jombert in his Répertoire des artistes, 1765.

Geymüller, H. de. Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre, 1887, p. 3