Catalogue des tableaux de Mr. de Jullienne

This manuscript catalogue of the paintings and drawings of the famous eighteenth-century collector Jean de Jullienne (1686-1766) contains 144 leaves (first and last four leaves are blank) with small watercolor illustrations showing where they hung in his Paris house. It was compiled by Jean-Baptiste-François de Montullé (1721-1787), Jullienne's cousin who was his successor in the family business and his residuary legatee. The catalogue can be dated about 1756 on the basis of the compiler's comment in connection with a picture by Oudry that the artist died recently, as Oudry died in April 1755. It includes a frontispiece of small cupids representing the Arts (after Boucher?) with monogram DJ; a title-page; a preface signed "Montullé"; a plan of the appartments; a list of 367 paintings and drawings interspersed with forty-two plates (no. 31 folding, no. 30 missing) showing elevations of walls hung with framed paintings and drawings, 152 of which are represented in miniature; a chronological table of the artists and their paintings divided into Italian, Flemish, and French schools; and an index of artists.