Album de Vézenobres
By: par A. Maugendre
Publisher: Impr. Lith. Auguste Bry
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Castles; Gardens; Buildings, structures; Homes and haunts; Château de Vézonobres (Vézenobres, Gard, France)
Other titles: Vezenobres
Notes: Album contains eight views of the château de Vézenobres (7 architectural/landscape prints plus title page vignette).

Title page has small, lithograph vignette: Ruines de l'ancien Château de Vezenobres.

"Built in a town rich with Roman and Mediaeval ruins, the 18th century Chateau de Vézénobres in southern France was the inspired creation of the marquis Charles de Calvière, one-time page to Louis XIV, fellow student with Voltaire, companion and military aide to Louis XIV and friend to Madame de Pompadour. Calvière wanted his chateau and park to serve not only as a testament to his heroism as a soldier, but also as a reflection of his standing as an art collector and man of taste. In his short history of the town of Vézénobres Abbé J. Redier described the park of the chateau as a "charmante et petite reproduction de celui de Versailles à une étendue de seize hectares." The chateau and the park remain private today. The lithographed views drawn for this album by Maugendre help us to visualize their appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first plate depicts a bosquet centered around a fountain in front of the courtyard to the chateau while the next view pulls back from the first to show the park as a setting for the chateau with the town visible in the distance. Other plates show the chateau d'eau and parterre, the planted approach and courtyard of the theater, a wooded approach to the chapel and other scenes within the gardens. All the scenes depict plantings and at least one gardener is shown at work in each scene."--Hinck & Wall Rare Books.

"The author/artist is no doubt Auguste Maugendre (1809-1895)...."--icollector.com (viewed September 22, 2016).

"The Chateau de Vezenobres is located in the South of France near Nimes and Montpelier."--icollector.com (viewed September 22, 2016).

Most plates have at bottom left, below image: Dessiné d'après nature et Lith. par A. Maugendre; at bottom right, below image: Imp. par Auguste Bry. r. du Bac, 114, Paris.

Date taken from bookseller Hinck & Wall Rare Books data sheet.
Table of contents: title: Plates: [Plate 1] Vézenobres, Vue générale du Château; title: [Plate 2] Vézenobres, Vue du Parc; title: [Plate 3] Vézenobres, Vue d'ensemble du château & de ses dépendances; title: [Plate 4] Vézenobres, Château deau & parterre; title: [Plate 5] Vézenobres, Vue du Théatre; title: [Plate 6] Vézenobres, Vue de la chapelle; title: [Plate 7] Vézenobres, porte & Maison du Jardinier.