GRUNE-PLANE, DURCHSCHNITTE UND FACADEN NEBST DETAILS DER REITBAHN UND STALLUNGEN

METIVIER, Jean Baptiste.  GRUNE-PLANE, DURCHSCHNITTE UND FACADEN NEBST DETAILS DER REITBAHN UND STALLUNGEN, GEBAUT FUR S.D. HERRN VON     THUR UND TAXIS,...

Munich: The Author, 1836. Large folio. Contemporary printed

wrappers, later portfolio (20 x 13 1/4 inches). (8) pages, 14 lithographic plates.  First, and only, edition.

Rare architectural plans for the riding school and stables of the princely House of Thurn and Taxis, not recorded on OCLC.  The only known edition of the third and last of Jean Baptiste Metivier's works, preceded by his Archtektonischen Verzierungen (1824-1826) and a publication on his designs for the Munich synagogue (1824-1826).  Metivier was born into a French family of artists, builders and architects in Rennes and trained in Paris, where he was influenced by his near contemporaries Percier and Fontaine and the earlier architect Jean Francois de Neufforge.  In 1811, he moved to Munich, where in 1816 he was appointed a court inspector, in 1818 he was appointed a court decorator and by 1824 he had become a royal building advisor.  As a court decorator, he served as a highly talented assistant to Leo von Klenze, with whom he evidently enjoyed a long a fruitful collaboration, contributing to some of Klenze's important buildings, including the Glyptothek and the National Theater.  He also worked for members of the nobility and upper class, primarily in Munich and Regensburg, designing palaces (many destroyed in World War II), and from 1836 he also held the post of court architect to the Duke of Leuchtenberg.  All three of Metivier's treatises are rare, but this third and last, on the riding school and stables for the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis, would seem to be the rarest of all.  Original wrappers skillfully repaired and reinforced at spine fold.  Some Scattered foxing, else very good.

 

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