Title
Confiseur, pastillage et moulles pour les glaces, Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts
Caption
Confiseur, pastillage et moulles pour les glaces, Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication, Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799, Prévost, Benoît Louis, ca. 1735-1804?, Engraving, etching, ca. 1765, The plate illustrates the article Confiseur in the Encyclopédie published by Diderot and D'Alembert. Fig. 1-4 in the upper image are workers pounding sugar paste on a marble mortar, cutting out a flower from a layer of sugar paste, composing flower petals or leaves and molding a vase handle in sugar paste. Fig. 1-15 in the lower image are confectionery tools: knives, stamping tools, molds in vegetable and animal forms for ices. Goussier del.--inscribed left of lower margin, and Prevost Fecit--inscribed right of lower margin
Info+
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Date
1765
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT19B34_500
Model release
NA
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NA
License type
Rights managed
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26,7Mb (1,8Mb) / 8,0in x 13,0in / 2398 x 3899 (300dpi)