Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Marolles, Michel de
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Date Born
1600
Date Died
1681
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Overview
His Livre des peintres et graveurs (1677) though hardly more than a catalog of his own collection in verse, can be considered an early Lives-of-the-artists proto-art history. He also wrote an engravings catalog in 1666.
Selected Bibliography
[the 1677 is unsubstantiated heretofore-LS]Catalogve de livres d'estampes et de figvres en taille dovce : Avec un dénombrement des pieces qui y sont contenuës. Fait à Paris en l'anneé 1666 / Par M. de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin... Published A Paris : Chez Frederic Leonard, ruë S. Jacques, à l'Escu de Venise, M. DC. LXVI [i.e. 1666]