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Pierre Vallet - Le Jardin Du Roy Tres Crestien Henry Iv
Original
Auction:
Sotheby's -
Jul 15, 2004- London
Lot number:
232
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Footnote:
FIRST EDITION OF “THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM” (Blunt). At the
beginning of the Seventeenth century Marie de’’’’ Medici’’’’s great
passion for flowers and plants set the fashion for floral themes at
the French court.
Le Jardin du Roi
is Pierre Vallet’’’’s
homage to the Queen, executed to document some of the exotic
species bought back from Spain and the islands off the coast of
Guinea by Jean Robin the younger, and also to provide patterns for
embroideries. Vallet, born in Orleans about 1575, moved to Paris
where he worked as an engraver. He was appointed to the court of
Henri IV as
brodeur ordinaire de Sa Majeste
and, later,
vallet de chambre du roy.
As engraver he produced
illustrations for
Touffe de Fleurs
(1601),
Aventures
amoureuses de Theagene et Chariclee
(1613) and
La Symbole de
Nies
(1642). In Paris he met Jean Robin, who directed the Royal
Gardens of the Louvre for Henri III, Henri IV and Louis XIII.
Tournefort refers to Robin as the most celebrated botanist of his
time and Linnaeus named the locust tree (Robinia) after him. Vallet
and Robin collaborated on several works, such as
Catalogus
Stirpium… quae Lutetiae coluntur
(1601) and
Histoire des
Plantes aromatiques
(1619), but their masterpiece is without
doubt
Le Jardin due Roy.
The plates are etched mostly with
engraved highlights. Their naturalism, which set new standards for
botanical illustration, ensured that the work met with considerable
success. It was widely copied and adapted, notably by Johann
Theodor de Bry in
Florilegium Novum
(1611), by Emanuel
Sweert in 1612 and by Friderico Barbette in
Florilegium
Novum
(1641). Wilhelm Junk in
Rara Historico-Naturalia et
Mathematica
describes the present work as extremely rare.
References: Dunthorne, p. 253; Hunt 187; Nissen BBI 2039; Tongiorgi
Tomasi,
Oak Spring Flora, 8.
Provenance: inscriptions of
Marie Blaudel dated 1713 and 1714; bookplate of Robert Hoe.
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