Diverses Pieces de Serruriers
Jean Berain French
Gabriel Ladame French
After Hugues Brisville
Not on view
This print is part of a booklet of designs for locks, lock plates, and related ironwork designed by the Parisian locksmith Hugues Brisville. Its fourteen plates show the ingenuity and humor that went into the design of these pieces. Intertwined with the acanthus scrolls that make up most of this design for a lock are many figures, animals, and masks. The prints are made even more attractive by the high quality of their engraving. The series quickly became a success. After first being published by Brisville himself, it was soon picked up by the famous publisher Nicolas Langlois, who also included a portrait of Brisville in the publication. Today, it is considered one of the principal seventeenth-century publications of its kind.
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