Recueil de cent vingt-une des plus belles vues de palais
Subtitle: châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et de ses environs, dessinées d'après nature en 1780
By: [sic] et gravées par J. Rigaud
Contributors: Rigaud, Jean Baptiste, active 1752-1761
Publisher: Treuttel et Würtz [etc.]
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Architecture
Notes: 121 engr.

There has previously been some confusion as to whether Jacques Rigaud or his nephew J.B. Rigaud were responsible for this work. It is agreed now that most of the plates were drawn and engraved by Jacques and some engraved by Jean Baptiste from his own or his uncle's drawings. The date 1780 on t.p. is obviously wrong since Jacques Rigaud died ca. 1754. For a list of editions, cf. Cohen, Henry. Guide de l'amateur de livre à gravure du 18e siècle. 6 éd. Paris, 1912. v. 2, p. 895.