Dezallier d'Argenville

Antoine -Joseph d' Dezallier Argenville ( born July 1, 1680 in Paris, † November 29, 1765 ) was a French scholar, natural historian, author of scientific papers and encyclopedist.

Life and work

His father was a bookseller Antoine Dezallier, his mother Marie Mariette was the publisher of Jean Du Puis widow. Dezallier studied at the Collège du Plessis, perceived and learned drawing and copperplate engraving by Jean Corneille (1649-1695), Alexandre Le Blond and Bernard Picart some law lectures. The father had purchased the estate in 1696 Argenville in the community Bezons and handed it to his son in 1711, who then the suffix d' Argenville led. In the aftermath Dezallier d' Argenville toured Germany, Italy and England. In 1718 he married Françoise- Thérèse HEMART, son of Antoine- Nicolas d' Dezallier Argenville came in 1723 to the world. 1720 sold Dezallier d' Argenville his property in Bezons and moved to Bièvres. At both properties he claimed to have invested parks, but these are poorly documented. 1742 his wife died, he married again later.

His book La théorie et la pratique du jardinage first appeared anonymously in 1709 and was a widespread and important work on the garden art in the 18th century. The second edition was marked with the initials of the author, more appeared under the name of the architect Jean -Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679-1719), who drew the panels, as well as the English and German edition. The editions of 1713 and 1747, the author revised in accordance with the rapidly progressing taste of the time, adding more and more modern boards. The work was already 1712 by John James (ca. 1673-1746 ), translated into English and translated into German as a practice or exercise in 1731 by Franz Anton Danreiter under the title The Gärtnerey both in its theory or observation.

From 1748 was Dezallier d' Argenville employees of the Encyclopédie Diderot. In a letter he speaks of more than 2,000 articles he had written for the lexicon. In fact there are 597 with the code "K", which is itself dissolved in the Encyclopédie with " d' Argenville ", so that the proportion of father and son remains unclear.

Dezallier d' Argenville had a large collection of shells, of which he also published, as well as a collection of engravings and drawings.

His son Antoine- Nicolas d' Dezallier Argenville ( August 27, 1723 Paris - September 26, 1796 Paris) wrote a Dictionnaire du Jardinage and many garden articles in the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and d' Alembert, also in 1787, the two-volume work Vies of Fameux Architectes depuis la Renaissance des Arts.

Works (selection)

  • La théorie et la pratique du jardinage, ou l' on Traite a fond des beaux jardins les jardins de Apelles communément plaisance et de propreté, composés parterres de, de bosquets .... ed Nouvelle - Paris: Mariette, 1709, 1713, in 1747. Digitized edition of the university and State library Dusseldorf
  • Traité des vernis, où l' on donne la manière d'en un qui ressemble composer parfaitement à celui de la Chine, et plusieurs autres qui concernent la peinture, la dorure, la gravure à l' eau -forte, etc. 1723 translation from Italian, original by Filippo Buonanni
  • L' Histoire naturelle dans deux de ses parties éclaircie principales, et la la lithology conchyliologie. 1742
  • Enumerationis Fossilium, quae in omnibus Galliae provinciis reperiuntur, tentamina, 1751
  • La Conchyliologie, ou Histoire naturelle of coquilles de mer d' eau douce, terrestres et fossil, avec un traité de la zoomorphose, ou représentation des animaux qui les habitent. 2 vols, 1752; 1757; 1780
  • Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, avec leurs portraits en taille - douce Graves, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, quelques Reflexions sur leurs caractères, et la maniere de les connoître desseins des grands maîtres. Par M *** de l' Académie royale des sciences de Montpellier. 3 vols, 1745-1752. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee & augmentée de la Vie de plusieurs peintres. 4 vols, 1762nd
  • L' Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses principales parties, l' oryctologie, qui Traite of terres, the pierres, the métaux, the minéraux et autres fossil. 1755. Pages 387-532 contain a chapter under the title Essai sur l' histoire naturelle of fossil qui se dans toutes les trouvent provinces de France, a revised and expanded version of 1751 published in Latin title Enumerationis Fossilium, quae in omnibus Galliae provinciis reperiuntur, tentamina represents.
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