Lot 63: BARRIÈRE, Dominique (1610-1678). 'Pamphiliae Villae Prospectus Quintus ad Meridiem Directus'. Etched copper printing plate by and after Barrière to illustrate Villa Pamphilia , [?c. 1652-1657] (364 x 661mm). Cf. Le Blanc 'Barrière' 136 (the

BARRIÈRE, Dominique (1610-1678). 'Pamphiliae Villae Prospectus Quintus ad Meridiem Directus'. Etched copper printing plate by and after Barrière to illustrate Villa Pamphilia, [?c. 1652-1657] (364 x 661mm). Cf. Le Blanc 'Barrière' 136 (the print).

Villa Pamphilia, eiusque Palatium, cum suis prospectibus, statuae, fontes, vivaria, theatra, areolae, plantarum, viarumque ordines. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, [c. 1666-1677, probably 1675-6]. 2° (420 x 293mm). Title with engraved vignette of the Pamphili arms. Engraved portrait of Camillo Pamphili by L. Visscher after G.B. Gaulus and 83 engraved plates, one double-page, 6 folding, by Dominique Barriére, Giovanni Battista Falda, Carlo Orlandi et al. after Barrière, Falda, et al. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initial. (Some light spotting and browning, some light dampstaining, title marked.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, red-speckled edges (slightly marked and cockled, corners rubbed with minor losses). FIRST EDITION. Berlin Kat. 3491 (calling for 82 plates); Brunet V, 1233 (calling for 87 plates); Cicognara 3911 (calling for 87 plates); RIBA 3482 (calling for 82 plates).

A RARE ORIGINAL COPPER-PLATE OF THE VILLA DORIA-PAMPHILI ENGRAVED BY BARRIèRE FOR PRINCE CAMILLO PAMPHILI WITH THE FIRST EDITION OF VILLA PAMPHILIA. The Villa Pamphili was the last and most magnificent of the Roman villas built in the 16th and 17th centuries: the construction of the villa, under the architect G.F. Grimaldi and the sculptor Algardi, lasted from 1644 to 1648, and the gardens were laid out in 1650. The house included some of the finest stucco work of the 17th century, and a main feature of the gardens was the collection of Roman and Greek statuary, displayed in niches in the facade of the villa and in the grounds. Shortly after this collection was installed, Pamphili commissioned Barrière -- one of the pre-eminent architectural draughtsmen in Rome in the 1640 and 1650s -- to draw and engrave views of the Villa and a number of the statues; this commission was probably executed by Barrière (together with Carlo Orlandi, thought to be an assistant or student) between 1652 and 1657, when payments to them are recorded. After Camillo Pamphili's death in 1666, the plates were inherited by his son Giambatttista, who presumably arranged the publication of Villa Pamphilia by de' Rossi. Further plates were engraved for the work (and a small group prepared for G.B. Falda's Le fontane di Roma were also included); however it seems most probable that this plate was part of the earlier group. The copper-plate is for one of the double-page folding plates, and depicts the gardens and the Villa in the distance at the end of a tree-lined avenue, with a small lake in the fore-ground. (2)

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