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  • Jean Baptiste Nolin I., Ca. 1657 – 1725, Copper engraving wall map
    Mar. 29, 2022

    Jean Baptiste Nolin I., Ca. 1657 – 1725, Copper engraving wall map

    Est: €2,000 - €4,000

    Jean Baptiste Nolin I. Ca. 1657 – 1725 Jean Baptiste Nolin II. 1686 – 1762 „L’Afrique Dressée Sur les Relationes les Plus Recentes et rectifiées sur les dernieres observations“ 1740 Copperplate wall map with original outline color, consisting of four continuous sheets surrounded by text and cartouches depicting landscapes 125 x 139 cm, with frame 140 x 152 cm A rare and monumental wall map of Africa by a great French master cartographer. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most successful and certainly the most ambitious French cartographer of his time. He founded a family empire in Paris in the 1680s. In an extraordinary way, he managed to combine top-class decorative ornamentation with the serious goal of creating maps that reflected the most advanced rendering of geographical details. The artistic verve of his compositions testifies to a style that preserves the rhetorical ambitions of the Baroque while anticipating the playful elegance of the Rococo. His masterpieces, many of which, like the present wall map, were monumental in scale, were an expression of Nolin's desire to overwhelm his competitors in a very demanding market. Nolin, who was highly controversial, occasionally referred to himself as "the king's engraver," an appointment of which, curiously, the royal court never learned. In his quest to provide his maps with the latest geographical details, he rarely hesitated to seek information from his eminent contemporaries, especially Guillaume De L'Isle and Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Jean-Dominique Cassini, and the Sieur de Tillemon. These competitors were sometimes unhappy about Nolin appropriating their intellectual property, as De L'Isle successfully sued Nolin for plagiarism in 1705. However, the larger-than-life Nolin always seemed to overcome these challenges and left behind a thriving business that was continued by his son. The present map was produced by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II in 1740, drawing largely on earlier maps produced by his father. Geographically, the map is relatively advanced, but has some rather odd speculations. The coastlines are well defined, having been explored for more than two hundred and fifty years, but the heart of Africa remains a mystery. In the absence of direct observations, the European imagination has been given free rein. Thus, Nolin adopts the ideas propagated by De L'Isle and Coronelli in the 17th century that the Nile is somehow connected to the Niger, even though the two rivers flow in different directions and empty thousands of miles apart. Moreover, written descriptions of the continent's inhabitants are full of archaic legends about bizarre and monstrous races. The presented map is an artistically virtuoso composition of monumental scale, with the image surrounded by thirty vignettes depicting events from African history. The focus of the vignettes is on the better known regions of North Africa, but much attention is also given to French trading activities in Guinea. Each vignette is embedded in an elaborate baroque frame and is accompanied by a textual description. The detailed description at the bottom is titled "Description Geographique de L'Afrique". The large title cartouche is framed by period rocailles and includes an optimistic scene depicting friendly trade between Africans and Europeans, as well as a dedication to Louis XV. It is not only a masterful work of art and a fascinating image that explores the frontiers of European geographical knowledge, but also a vivid testament to a dramatic transitional period in the history of cartography and society in general. Literature: Tooley, Maps of Africa, S. 86, Tafel 67.

    Tiberius Auctions
  • Jean Baptiste Nolin I., Ca. 1657 – 1725, Copper engraving wall map
    Mar. 29, 2022

    Jean Baptiste Nolin I., Ca. 1657 – 1725, Copper engraving wall map

    Est: €2,000 - €4,000

    Jean Baptiste Nolin I. Ca. 1657 – 1725 Jean Baptiste Nolin II. 1686 – 1762 „L’Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations faites en toutes les parties de la Terre Rectifiée“ 1740 Copperplate wall map, with original outline color, mounted on old linen 125 x 139 cm, with frame 140 x 152 cm A rare and monumental wall map of Europe by a great French master cartographer. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most successful and certainly the most ambitious French cartographer of his time. He established a family empire in Paris in the 1680s. In an extraordinary way, he managed to combine top-class decorative ornamentation with the serious goal of creating maps that reflected the most advanced rendering of geographical details. The artistic verve of his compositions testifies to a style that preserves the rhetorical ambitions of the Baroque while anticipating the playful elegance of the Rococo. His masterpieces, many of which, like the present wall map, were monumental in scale, were an expression of Nolin's ambition to overwhelm the competition in a very demanding market. Nolin, who was highly controversial, occasionally referred to himself as "the king's engraver," an appointment of which, curiously, the royal court never learned. In his quest to provide his maps with the latest geographical details, he rarely hesitated to seek information from his eminent contemporaries, especially Guillaume De L'Isle and Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Jean-Dominique Cassini, and the Sieur de Tillemon. These competitors were sometimes unhappy about Nolin taking over their intellectual property, and De L'Isle successfully sued Nolin for plagiarism in 1705. However, the larger-than-life Nolin always seemed to overcome these challenges and left behind a thriving business that his son carried on. The present map was created by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II in 1740 and is largely based on earlier maps by his father. It is a very detailed and refined image of Europe, which at that time was in the process of increasing its imperialistic influence on the other continents. This map is an artistically virtuoso composition of monumental proportions, as the image is surrounded by thirty vignettes, each framed by individual baroque borders, depicting various events in European history and textual narratives. The greatest decorative flourish of the composition is certainly the title cartouche, located at the upper left of the main image. Finely engraved classical gods and allegorical personifications frame the design. Iconologically, they are meant to endow Europe with the various powers and virtues they represent. For example, Mercury, the messenger god of travel, trade, and theft, is present to protect and speed European ships as they sail the seas on global missions of conquest and trade. This wall map is one of the most important works of the Nolins. It is not only a masterful work of art and a fascinating image that explores the frontiers of European geographical knowledge, but also a living testimony to a dramatic transitional period in the history of cartography and society in general.

    Tiberius Auctions
  • Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657 - 1725) - Royaume De Siam, avec Les Royaumes qui luy sont-Tributaries, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon 6...
    Apr. 28, 2016

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657 - 1725) - Royaume De Siam, avec Les Royaumes qui luy sont-Tributaries, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon 6...

    Est: $500 - $700

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657 - 1725) Royaume De Siam, avec Les Royaumes qui luy sont-Tributaries, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon engraving, published in 1742 (AF) The present map was a product of the collaboration between Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1657-1708), who was one of the official mapmakers to the King Louis XIV, and Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1715), a Venetian master who had been invited to Paris by the King to undertake cartographic projects, including the construction of the colossal 'Marly Globes'. The result of this collaboration was the most up to date and detailed contemporary maps of many parts of the World, at a time when France assumed a leading role in the exploration of America and Asia. 62 x 45cm signed in plate

    Lawsons
  • Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State with date (1640) erased. 460 x 605. Abl 33.
    Dec. 15, 2015

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State with date (1640) erased. 460 x 605. Abl 33.

    Est: €300 - €400

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State with date (1640) erased. 460 x 605. Abl 33.

    Adam's
  • Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State without Coronelli attribution. 460 x 605. Abl 33.
    Dec. 15, 2015

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State without Coronelli attribution. 460 x 605. Abl 33.

    Est: €300 - €400

    Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725)Le Royaume D'Irlande. State without Coronelli attribution. 460 x 605. Abl 33.

    Adam's
  • Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686-1762) Carte du Royaume du Portugal XVIIIe siècle
    Jun. 11, 2014

    Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686-1762) Carte du Royaume du Portugal XVIIIe siècle

    Est: €100 - €150

    Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686-1762) Carte du Royaume du Portugal XVIIIe siècle Gravure en taille douce et mise en couleur. Elle est ornée d'un cartouche armoirié Inscription au cartouche : Regnum Portugalliae divisum in quinque provincias majores & subdivisum in sua quaeque territoria una cum regno Algarbiae speciali mappa exhibitum An engraved map of the Portuguese kingdom

    FauveParis
  • Jean Baptiste NOLLIN (Paris 1657- 1725) Berger
    Nov. 30, 2011

    Jean Baptiste NOLLIN (Paris 1657- 1725) Berger

    Est: €400 - €500

    Jean Baptiste NOLLIN (Paris 1657- 1725) Berger contemplant la plaine Plume et encre noire 12 x 19 cm Signé en bas à droite dans la marge Petites taches Cette feuille faisait partie d'un carnet dispersé...

    Millon & Associes
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