Berthault, Pierre Gabriel (1737-1831); Louis-Martin Berthault (1770-1823), engravers; Paul André Basset (1759-1829), publisher; After C. Bourgeois, artist

Suite de vingt-quatre vues de jardins anglais exécutés par [Louis-Martin] Berthault. Architecte de L'Empereur et Roi . First edition of the aquatints.

Paris : Chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, no. 64, circa 1812-. Suite complète de 24 planches gravées par Pierre-Gabriel Berthault d'après 24 aquatints and soft ground etchings, title page 29 x 21.5cm; others oblong....

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
3723722..................); Louis-Martin Berthault (1770—1823) : French architect and landscape-architect, a pupil of Percier. He decorated a house on the Rue du Mont-Blanc, Paris, and designed a celebrated garden at Raincy which included a Russian House, a grotto, and an iron bridge (all 1790s and early 1800s). His garden at Les Fontaines, near Chantilly (1792–1822), had Picturesque and Neo-Classical features (e.g. Fisherman's House, Boat-House, Sepulchre, and Obelisk on an island), and is known from the drawings by C. Bourgeois and Berthault's uncle, Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, published in Suite de Vingt-Quatre Vues de Jardins Anglais (1812). Berthault transformed several French gardens into less formal arrangements, notably at Courson (from 1820). He became Chief Architect to the Empress Josephine (1763–1814) in 1805, for whom he carried out works at the garden of La Malmaison. Other parks on which he worked were those at St-Leu-Taverny, Beauregard (near Villeneuve-St-George), and Compiègne. His eclectic use of a wide variety of exotic shrubs and trees created a rich, sometimes overwhelming effect......
British Museum: Paul André Basset, artist and publisher...Address:
(by mid 1812) rue Saint Jacques no.64 (which was still the building at the corner of the Mathurins), where firm remained at least to 1885 (see Beraldi I p.104...)
Biography:.......
Paris print publisher, printseller and wallpaper manufacturer, son of André. Married in 1787. Premises at the corner of rue St Jacques and rue des Mathurins. Very active during the revolutionary period . Retired in 1819; business continued by various members of the family at same address before disappearing after 1865 (see Nouvelles de l'Estampe 176 (2001) p.6, note 11). The family were major publishers, with 1425 entries in the BdlF between 1799 and 1852. The firm aimed at the middle parket, and only published social satires, never political caricatures.Some plates were taken over from Martinet.....
Basset publications are sometimes found with running numbers at top right, which presumably refer to a catalogue.....

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