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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.
East Coast Books
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.
East Coast Books
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.
East Coast Books
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.
East Coast Books
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.
East Coast Books
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,
Fichter Kunsthandel
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.
Bubb > Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts
Nov. 24, 2023
[Birds]. Benard, Robert (1734-1786). Lot of 11 contemp. handcol. engravings,
Est: €100 - €150
[Birds]. Benard, Robert (1734-1786). Lot of 11 contemp. handcol. engravings, ±23,5x16 cm., w. engr. captions from ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE, 1782-1832. = Nissen, IVB 301. ADDED: 3 contemp. handcol. engravings of fruit by SELLIER (19th cent.).
Bubb > Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts
Nov. 17, 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.
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Nov. 17, 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. 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. 02, 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.
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Nov. 02, 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. 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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Oct. 17, 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.
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Sep. 23, 2023
Antonio Barrati
Est: €20 - €80
Antonio Barrati Belluno 1724 - 1787 Venedig - "Antiquités" - Radierung/Papier. 35,5 x 45 cm, 40 x 48,9 cm. Mittelfalz. Vertikale Knickspuren. Das Blatt liegt lose. Robert Benard Direx 1734 - 1786 - "Antiquités" - 3 Radierungen/Papier. Bis zu 38,8 x 48,4 cm (Blattmaß). Die Blätter liegen lose. Teils mit vertikalen Knickspuren. Teils gebräunt und stockfleckig. Konvolut von Darstellungen antiker Architektur. Dargestellt sind. u. a. die Tempelanlagen von Baalbek.
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Sep. 21, 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.
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Sep. 07, 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.
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Sep. 02, 2023
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,
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Aug. 24, 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.
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Aug. 19, 2023
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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Aug. 03, 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
Jul. 20, 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
Jun. 29, 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
Jun. 17, 2023
Robert Bénard (1734-1777), 13 Stiche zur Reitschule (Manège)
Est: €180 - €300
Robert Bénard 1734 Paris - 1777 - "Manège, Suitte des appartenances de la Selle et (...)" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,3 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XXVII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt, kleines Fleckchen im oberen Bereich. - "Manège, Dépendances de la Selle et suitte des Meubles (...)" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 21,9 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XXIX. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand. - M., Plan de Terre de l'Epaule (...) - Pl. XIV; - M., Plan de Terre de la Croupe (...) - Pl. XVI; - M., Plan de Terre de la Maniere (...) - Pl. XVII; - M., Plan de Terre des Voltes - Pl. XVIII; - M., Plan de Terre des Changements (...) - Pl. XIX; - M., Plan de Terre des demi (...) - Pl. XX; - M., Suitte des Meubles (...) - Pl. XXVIII; - M., Partie du Plan (...) - Pl. XXX; - M., Coupe Transversalle (...) - Pl. XXXI; - M., Coupe et Élévation (...) - Pl. XXXII; - M., Partie de l'Elévation (...) - Pl. XXXIII. 11 Kupferstiche/Papier. Je ca. 35,5 x 22,5 cm (Plattenmaß). 39,6 x 24,4 cm (Blattmaß). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit. Die Blätter liegen lose. Beschn., leichte Altersspuren, teils leicht gebräunt, teils leichte Lichtränder, teils minim. fleckig.
Das Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG
Jun. 17, 2023
Robert Bénard (1734-1777), Vier Stiche zur Reitschule (Manège)
Est: €120 - €250
Robert Bénard 1734 Paris - 1777 - "Manège, Lecon de l`Epaule en dedans" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35,2 x 22,4 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XIII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand. - "Manège, La Croupe au Mur" - Kupferstich/Papier. 34 x 21,7 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XV. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand. - "Manège, Selle à la Royalle et Selle Raze" - Kupferstich/Papier. 34 x 22,2 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del; r. o.: Pl. XXI. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand, minim. fleckig. - "Manège, Selle à Piquer, Selle Angloise à Ragostki et (...)" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XXII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand.
Das Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG
Jun. 17, 2023
Robert Bénard (1734-1777), Vier Stiche zur Reitschule (Manège)
Est: €120 - €250
Robert Bénard 1734 Paris - 1777 - "Manège, Terre à Terre à droite. La Pesade" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,3 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. IX. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand, minimales Fleckchen untere Hälfte. - "Manege, Le Mézair et la Courbette" - Kupferstich/Papier. 34,7 x 22,2 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. X. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt, kleines Fleckchen linker Rand. - "Manège, La Croupade et la Balotade" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,6 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XI. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Lichtrand, minimales Fleckchen obere Hälfte. - "Manège, La Capriole. Lecon du piaser dans les piliers" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,8 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. XII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Minim. Altersspuren, minim. Lichtrand.
Das Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG
Jun. 17, 2023
Robert Bénard (1734-1777), Vier Stiche zur Reitschule (Manège)
Est: €120 - €250
Robert Bénard 1734 Paris - 1777 - "Manège, Le Galop desuni du devant à droite (...)" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit.; l. u.: Harguiniez Del; r. o.: Pl. V. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manege, Allures defectueuses, l`Ambe et l`Aubin" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,4 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. VI. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manège, Airs bas ou près de terre, le Paßage et la Galopade" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit.; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. VII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manège, La Volte et la Pirrouette à gauche" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. VIII. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand; minim. gebräunt; links oben minim., angeklebtes Papierstück.
Das Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG
Jun. 17, 2023
Robert Bénard (1734-1777), Vier Stiche zur Reitschule (Manège)
Est: €120 - €250
Robert Bénard 1734 Paris - 1777 - "Manège, Le Pas et le Trot à droite" - Kupferstich/Papier. 34,7 x 23,6 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del; r. o.: Pl. I. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manège, Le Galop uni à droite et le Galop faux à droite" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. II. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manège, Galop desuni du derriere à gauche et Galop (...)" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. III. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt. - "Manège, Le Galop uni à gauche et le Galop faux à gauche" - Kupferstich/Papier. 35 x 22,5 cm (Passepartoutausschnitt). Bez. r. u.: Benard Fecit; l. u.: Harguiniez Del.; r. o.: Pl. IV. Unter Glas gerahmt. Ungeöffnet. Leichter Lichtrand, minim. gebräunt.
Das Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG
Jun. 15, 2023
Robert Benard (1731-1794)
Est: €50 - €100
Robert Benard (1731-1794) 'Twee handgekleurde kopergravures met marine vlaggen'. Uit: Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, door auteurs Denis Diderot (1713-1784) & Jean d'Alembert (1717?-1783), deel I, folio 27 (Marine), Parijs 1751-1772.
Vendu Rotterdam
May. 31, 2023
ROBERT BÉNARD (Paris, 1734-1777) Lot of five bird engravings
Est: €200 - €300
ROBERT BÉNARD (Paris, 1734-1777) Lot of five bird engravings from the "Histoire Naturelle" collection 25,5 x 17 cm 200 - 300 €
Bayeu Subastas
May. 31, 2023
ROBERT BÉNARD (Paris, 1734-1777) Lot of five bird engravings
Est: €200 - €300
ROBERT BÉNARD (Paris, 1734-1777) Lot of five bird engravings from the "Histoire Naturelle" collection 25,5 x 17 cm 200 - 300 €
Bayeu Subastas
May. 21, 2023
Robert Benard (1734 1777) Animal Engravings
Est: $100 - $250
Plates 93 and 90 from, "Histoire Naturelle, Quadrupedes", in modern faux bamboo frames. Each signed, "Benard Direxit" which is a pseudonym .
Locati LLC
Apr. 13, 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
Apr. 13, 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
Mar. 15, 2023
ROBERT BÉNARD (Rosny-sous-Bois, 1731 - Paris, 1794) "Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie"
Est: €300 - €400
ROBERT BÉNARD (Rosny-sous-Bois, 1731 - Paris, 1794) "Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie" Four engravings 27 x 18 cm 300 - 400 €
Bayeu Subastas
Mar. 09, 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
Feb. 23, 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
Feb. 18, 2023
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,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Feb. 04, 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
Jan. 12, 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.
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Dec. 15, 2022
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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