François Desprez
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François Desprez? · archaeologydataservice.ac.uk · Public domain
- Born
- 1530
- Died
- 1587
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- printseller · illustrator · printmaker · editor · copper engraver · draftsperson · art dealer
- Education
- University of Paris
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1530
François Desprez born.
1587
François Desprez died.
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- 1.H. Carter & H. Vervliet, Civilité Types, (Oxford 1966), p. 25
- 2.G. de Tervarent, Attributs et symboles dans l'art Profane, (Paris 1997), pp. 131, 210, 262
- 3.A. Devriès-Lesure, 'Technological aspects,' in R. Rasch, ed., Music Publishing in Europe, vol. 1 (Berlin 2005) p. 70
- 4.La Gravure Française à la Renaissance à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, (Los Angeles 1995), p. 42
- 5.A. R. Jones, 'A 1562 Costume book,' in Yale French studies no 110, Meaning and its Objects, (Yale 2006), pp. 95-121
- 6.M. Bath, Renaissance Painting in Scotland (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 116-8: G. F. Warner, Library of James VI (Edinburgh, 1893), p. lxiii.
- 7.G. Widenstein, 'L'imprimeur-libraire Richard Breton et son inventaire après décès, 1571,' in Bibliotheque d'humanisme et Renaissance 21,(1959), pp. 364-379
- 8.D. Pallier, 'Les Victimes,' in Le Livre et l'historien, 24, (Paris 1997), pp. 145, 152, 156
- 9.J. Porcher, 'L'Auteur des Songes Drolatiques,' in Melanges Offerts a Abel Lefranc, (Paris 1936), pp. 229-231
- 10.M. Jeanneret, Les Songes Drolatiques De Pantagruel, (Paris 2004), pp. 9, 175-6
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François Desprez is recorded as printseller, illustrator, printmaker, editor and copper engraver.
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