Idees d'un Militaire pour la Disposition des Troupes

published 1783

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

Charles-Louis François de Fossé

Author, French, 1734 - 1812

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: 176 p. w/ 1 color crayon engr. head-piece plus 11 color crayon engr. (10 of which fold out) each with accompanying text leaf; text includes "Des Couleurs propres au lavis desplans"

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    page size: 30.1 x 23.4 cm (11 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
    overall (fold-out plates): 21.5 x 35.1 cm (8 7/16 x 13 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.81.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 878, State (2)

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 46, as Map of the Countryside around Berne and Map of the Countryside near Rouville by Louis-Marin Bonnet.

Bibliography

1935

  • Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935.

1959

  • The Bookpress Ltd., cat.34, no.223.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 46.

Inscriptions

inside front fly-leaf in graphite: Paris 1783 / compl. 11 grav. in crayon manner. / [illegible] Graessi II/620.


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