Full Name: Marolles, Michel de
Gender: male
Date Born: 1600
Date Died: 1681
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)
Career(s): art collectors
Overview
His Livre des peintres et graveurs (1677) though hardly more than a catalog of his own collection in verse, can be considered an early Lives-of-the-artists proto-art history. He also wrote an engravings catalog in 1666.
Selected Bibliography
[the 1677 is unsubstantiated heretofore-LS]Catalogve de livres d’estampes et de figvres en taille dovce : Avec un dénombrement des pieces qui y sont contenuës. Fait à Paris en l’anneé 1666 / Par M. de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin… Published A Paris : Chez Frederic Leonard, ruë S. Jacques, à l’Escu de Venise, M. DC. LXVI [i.e. 1666]