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Aug. 08, 2026
BÉNARD, Robert (*1734 Paris †?), Kupferstich,
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BÉNARD, Robert (*1734 Paris †?), Kupferstich, "Antiquités", Ansichten des Kolosseums, Illustration zu Denis Diderot / D'Alembert "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences…", oben rechts bez Pl. II, Plattenmaß 35,6 x 22,5 cm, Passepartout, hinter Glas, HR
zeitGenossen Antiquitäten - Kunst - Design
Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 107, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 107, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE III, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate III, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 145, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 145, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 144, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 144, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 143, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 143, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 142, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 142, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 141, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 141, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 16, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 16, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 9, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 9, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 18, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 18, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 91, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 91, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 140, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 140, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 11, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 11, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Jul. 09, 2026
ROBERT BENARD. MARINE. PLATE 87, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE BY JEAN GUILLAUME BRUGUIÈRE. PARIS, PANCKOUCKE, 1792.
Est: €90 - €130
Robert Benard. Marine. Plate 87, copper engraving from Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris, 1792. Copperplate engraving, printed on thick Verge paper. Sheet size: approx. 280 x 400 mm. Condition: good. Robert Benard (1734-1777) - French engraver, he produced numerous prints for various encyclopaedias, including the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Mar. 16, 2026
An instruction book for enamelling, 'Emailleur a la lampe et peinture en enamel', produced by: Robert Bénard (1734-1777), 18th century
Est: €50 - €100
An instruction book for enamelling, 'Emailleur a la lampe et peinture en enamel', produced by: Robert Bénard (1734-1777), 18th century A book explaining how the process of enamelling works. Consisting of five prints and a page of accompanying explanations related to the prints.
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Aug. 03, 2025
R. BÉNARD (1734-1777), Illustr. for textile production, Copper engraving
Est: €90 - €150
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ): Cardage ou Arconnage, illustration on the cardage and the art of the cardage maker, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, , Copper engraving Technique: Copper engraving on Paper Inscription: Signed on the lower right with: "Benard direxit" and inscribed below with: "Cardage, ou Arconnage. The illustration bears the number: "Pl. 2." at upper right and the page number "15" at lower right. Date: 18th century Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Professions, France, Size: Paper: 28,5 cm x 20,5 cm (11,2 x 8,1 in), Depiction: 22,5 cm x 15,9 cm (8,9 x 6,3 in)
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Jun. 19, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Jun. 19, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
May. 24, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
May. 24, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
May. 18, 2025
R. BÉNARD (*1734) after BELLIN (*1703), Hydraulic hoists, Copper engraving
Est: €300 - €400
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ) after Jaques Nicolaus Bellin (1703 - 1772 ): Panel with hydraulic machines and hoists, 18th century, Copper engraving Technique: Copper engraving on Paper Inscription: Upper right numbered in the printing plate: "12". Date: 18th century Source: Denis Diderot (1713 Langres-1784 Paris) Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1780 | Book, Genre, Science Keywords: Hydraulic, technology, mechanical, hydraulic engineering, pump, machine, 18th century, Baroque, Technology, France, Size: Paper: 25,5 cm x 61,0 cm (10 x 24 in), Plate: 23,5 cm x 57,8 cm (9,3 x 22,8 in), Depiction: 21,2 cm x 56,0 cm (8,3 x 22 in)
Fichter Kunsthandel
Apr. 17, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Apr. 17, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Mar. 29, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Mar. 13, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Feb. 27, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Feb. 15, 2025
R. BÉNARD (1734-1777), Cabinet maker and inlay maker, Etching
Est: €300 - €400
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ): Cabinet maker and inlay maker, 18th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Each signed below in the printing plate: "Benard direxit". Date: 18th century Description: Six etchings on paper and a folded double-sided etching on paper Source: Denis Diderot (1713 Langres-1784 Paris) Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1780 | Book, Genre, Science Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Professions, France, Size: Paper: 28,8 cm x 21,8 cm (11,3 x 8,6 in), Plate: 24,0 cm x 18,0 cm (9,4 x 7,1 in), additional specification: Format: 28.8 x 21.8 cm, double page: 28.5 x 40 cm
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Feb. 01, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Jan. 25, 2025
R. BÉNARD (1734-1777), Illustr. for textile production, Copper engraving
Est: €150 - €200
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ): Cardage ou Arconnage, illustration on the cardage and the art of the cardage maker, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 18th century, Copper engraving Technique: Copper engraving on Paper Inscription: Signed on the lower right with: "Benard direxit" and inscribed below with: "Cardage, ou Arconnage. The illustration bears the number: "Pl. 2." at upper right and the page number "15" at lower right. Date: Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Professions, France, Size: Paper: 28,5 cm x 20,5 cm (11,2 x 8,1 in), Depiction: 22,5 cm x 15,9 cm (8,9 x 6,3 in)
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Jan. 10, 2025
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Dec. 05, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Dec. 05, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Nov. 16, 2024
R. BÉNARD (*1734) after BELLIN (*1703), Hydraulic hoists, Copper engraving
Est: €300 - €400
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ) after Jaques Nicolaus Bellin (1703 - 1772 ): Panel with hydraulic machines and hoists, 18th century, Copper engraving Technique: Copper engraving on Paper Inscription: Upper right numbered in the printing plate: "12". Date: 18th century Source: Denis Diderot (1713 Langres-1784 Paris) Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1780 | Book, Genre, Science Keywords: Hydraulic, technology, mechanical, hydraulic engineering, pump, machine, 18th century, Baroque, Technology, France, Size: Paper: 25,5 cm x 61,0 cm (10 x 24 in), Plate: 23,5 cm x 57,8 cm (9,3 x 22,8 in), Depiction: 21,2 cm x 56,0 cm (8,3 x 22 in)
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Oct. 10, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Sep. 14, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Sep. 14, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Aug. 31, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Aug. 03, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Jul. 11, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
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Jun. 29, 2024
Bénard, Robert (1734-1777) "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 Kupferstiche auf Bütten.
Est: €60 - €120
Bénard, Robert (1734-1777) "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 Kupferstiche auf Bütten. Nach Zeichnungen von Louis-Jacques Goussier. Blatt ca. 30 x 21 cm. Bénard, Robert (1734-1777) "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 copper engravings on laid paper. After drawings by Louis-Jacques Goussier. Sheet approx. 30 x 21 cm.
Auktionshaus Karrenbauer
Apr. 20, 2024
R. BÉNARD (1734-1777), Illustr. for textile production, Copper engraving
Est: €150 - €200
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ): Cardage ou Arconnage, illustration on the cardage and the art of the cardage maker, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 18th century, Copper engraving Technique: Copper engraving on Paper Inscription: Signed on the lower right with: "Benard direxit" and inscribed below with: "Cardage, ou Arconnage. The illustration bears the number: "Pl. 2." at upper right and the page number "15" at lower right. Date: 18th century Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Professions, France,
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Apr. 13, 2024
Bénard, Robert (1734-1777), "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 Kupferstiche auf Bütten. Nach Zeichnungen von Louis-Jacques Goussier.
Est: €60 - €120
Bénard, Robert (1734-1777), "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 Kupferstiche auf Bütten. Nach Zeichnungen von Louis-Jacques Goussier. Blatt ca. 30 x 21 cm. Bénard, Robert (1734-1777), "Soierie - Tafel Nr. 66 bis 90", 25 copper engravings on laid paper. After drawings by Louis-Jacques Goussier. Sheet approx. 30 x 21 cm.
Auktionshaus Karrenbauer
Mar. 14, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Mar. 14, 2024
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris - 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 12-3/4 x 8 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Dec. 28, 2023
Benard Engraving from Diderot c. 1780
Est: $100 - $150
Robert Benard (1734, Paris _ 1777) was an 18th-century French engraver. Original engraving, circa 1780, platemark size approx. 14 x 8-3/4 in. VG. Title is DRAPERIE (cloth-making). Benard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclop_die by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751. Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog. Denis DIDEROT (1713-1784), French Encyclopedist and philosopher, who also wrote novels, essays, plays, and art and literary criticism. Diderot was born in Langres on Oct. 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits. He went to Paris in 1734 and spent ten years as an ill-paid tutor and hack writer. His first serious work, published anonymously, was Pens_es philosophiques (1746), which stated his deist philosophy. In 1747 he was invited to edit a French translation of the English Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1680?-1740). Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclop_die ou dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences, des arts et des metiers, which is usually known as the Encyclop_die. Aided by the most celebrated writers of the day, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, the skeptical, rationalist Diderot used the Encyclop_die as a powerful propaganda weapon against Ecclesiastical authority and the superstition, conservatism, and semifeudal social forms of the time. Consequently, Diderot and his associates became the objects of clerical and royal antagonism. In 1759 the Conseil du Roi formally suppressed the first ten volumes (published from 1751 onward) and forbade further publication. Nevertheless, Diderot continued work on the remaining volumes and had them secretly printed. The 17 volumes of text were completed in 1765, with plates and supplements added until 1780. Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (1761, or later; Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism. Lettre sur les aveugles (1749), about the way the blind learn, and the dramatic philosophical dialogue Le rve d'Alembert (1830) contain his materialist theories. A pioneer in aesthetic criticism, he founded (1759) Les Salons, a journal for which he wrote criticism of the annual Paris art exhibitions. His correspondence was unexcelled in an age of famous letter writers. Diderot won the patronage of the enlightened monarch Catherine the Great of Russia and greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. He died in Paris on July 30, 1784.
East Coast Books
Dec. 02, 2023
R. BÉNARD (1734-1777), Cabinet maker and inlay maker, Etching
Est: €300 - €400
Robert Bénard (1734 Paris - 1777 ): Cabinet maker and inlay maker, , Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Each signed below in the printing plate: "Benard direxit". Date: Description: Six etchings on paper and a folded double-sided etching on paper Source: Denis Diderot (1713 Langres-1784 Paris) Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751-1780 | Book, Genre, Science Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Professions, France,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Nov. 24, 2023
[Fish]. Benard, Robert (1734-1777). Lot of 32 handcol. engravings,
Est: €300 - €500
[Fish]. Benard, Robert (1734-1777). Lot of 32 handcol. engravings, each ±23x16 cm., w. engr. captions below, mainly from A. BONNATERRE, Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, 1788. = Not in Nissen.
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