{"title":"1760 Delafosse Iconologie Historique","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection brings together a substantial group of original engravings by Jean-Charles Delafosse, produced in Paris in the second half of the 18th century (c. 1760–1785).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDelafosse was a key figure in the transition to the Neoclassical style under Louis XVI, publishing suites of ornamental designs intended for architects, cabinetmakers, and decorative artists. 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Plate 71 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jean-François Daumont, Paris, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse assembled emblems of state, virtue, and human endeavour into paired architectural trophies that functioned as a visual dictionary for the decorative arts. The motifs here — eagle, column, oar, anchor — belong to his standard repertoire for representing dominion, drawn from antique precedent and reinterpreted for the Neoclassical interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.2 × 34.1 cm. 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Plate 85 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jean-François Daumont, Paris, c. 1771.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse was a leading figure in French Neoclassical design whose pattern books shaped interior decoration, furniture, and the decorative arts across Europe. His iconological plates combined architectural ornament with moral allegory, reflecting the Enlightenment preoccupation with virtue, vice, and civic conduct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 45.9 × 33.6 cm. 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Plate 66 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jean-François Daumont, Paris, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prominent Parisian architect, designer, and engraver, Delafosse produced influential pattern books that carried Neoclassical motifs into every branch of the decorative arts. His paired trophies of virtues and forces draw on antique sources — helmets, fasces, and laurel — refitted as ornamental vocabulary for late 18th-century interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 45.2 × 34.1 cm. 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Plate 107 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique, ou Attributs Hiéroglyphiques\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jean-François Daumont, Paris, c. 1773.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the final plates of Delafosse's pattern book, this sheet belongs to a series devoted to the mechanical arts and crafts. Saws, squares, compasses, and latticework are arranged as heraldic trophies — a characteristic fusion of workshop tools with the elevated grammar of Neoclassical ornament that made the \u003cem\u003eIconologie\u003c\/em\u003e a touchstone for artisans across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.4 × 33.8 cm. 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Plate 83 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jean-François Chéreau, Paris, c. 1771.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's cartouches and escutcheons provided ready-made frames for heraldic devices, dedicatory inscriptions, and allegorical tableaux. Carved, painted, or modelled in stucco, such ornaments shaped the appearance of hôtels particuliers, public buildings, and printed books, marking the transition from late Rococo exuberance to the measured forms of Neoclassicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.3 × 34.2 cm. 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Plate 74 from \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Jacques Chéreau, Paris, with royal privilege, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eIconologie\u003c\/em\u003e was reissued under several Parisian publishers, each retaining Delafosse's original designs while adding their own imprint. Plates such as this — devoted to the moral and civic qualities of the well-ordered state — were popular with architects and decorators seeking a Neoclassical vocabulary to replace the lighter ornament of the Rococo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.0 × 33.8 cm. 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The paired emblems of palette, lyre, sickle, and sheaf shown here reflect Enlightenment esteem for both the liberal arts and productive labour — a combination frequently invoked in public architecture, academy medals, and estate decoration of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.2 × 34.3 cm. 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Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's monument plates supplied templates for festival architecture, funerary catafalques, and commemorative sculpture. This homage to the \u003cem\u003eBien-Aimé\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a wave of late-reign panegyrics that translated absolutist propaganda into the disciplined classical vocabulary of the \u003cem\u003egoût grec\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 47.2 × 33.9 cm. 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Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse devoted a long sequence of plates to the liberal arts, each personified through architectural attributes rather than figures. The Pegasus-and-lyre vocabulary here became a default emblem for music rooms, theatre interiors, and bibliophile bookplates well into the Empire period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.8 × 33.7 cm. 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Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's juridical plates draw on Roman republican imagery — fasces, scales, and curule chairs — at a moment when the French parlements were openly contesting royal authority. The print sits within the broader pre-revolutionary fascination with classical models of civic virtue and the rule of law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.5 × 33.7 cm. 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Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's \u003cem\u003elivres d'attributs\u003c\/em\u003e compiled trophies for every conceivable subject — war, peace, the arts, the seasons — each readable at a glance through its iconographic apparatus. They were among the most-pillaged pattern sources for Louis XVI furniture mounts, fireplace surrounds, and ceiling roundels in the 1770s and 1780s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.6 × 33.6 cm. 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Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's national allegories form one of the richest sequences in the \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie\u003c\/em\u003e, condensing each country into a portable visual brief — Holland through trade, ships, and the Lion of the Republic. The series was widely copied for tapestry cartoons and academic drawing manuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 46.6 × 33.7 cm. 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