Abstract
Annelaure Aumaître et Céline Morisseau : Engraving Antiques : Mellan, Baudet and Louis XTV’s collection. The book of prints made by Claude Mellan and Etienne Baudet between 1668 and 1681 reproduces the sixty -one sculptures of Louis XIV’s collection of Antiques shown in the Louvre and Tuileries. It belongs to a collection of engraved plates entitled “Tableau du Cabinet du Roi, statues et antiques des Maisons royales”. The quality of this book resides in the continuity of the style of the two artists and in the extreme accuracy of the translation of sculptures into engravings, which makes it possible to identify, localize and enrich the history of some of the items of the collection. Finally, Mellan’s technique proves to be far richer in information than Baudet’s, so that one can imagine where the sculptures were and their supposed display in the King’s lower appartments at the Tuileries.
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