| I have detailed the bindings shown above on a previous page (click here to see it) but now thanks to the photos and research of Erick Aguirre we can see the J.A. Derome tickets inside this bindings. The Derome ticket appear to be identical and more importantly the inner dentelle roulettes in both bindings are also identical |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, we see the familiar Dubuisson Mosaic tools that have catalogued previously. There is no trace of a J. A. Derome tool, I suppose he could have made the actual binding, however that is his only contribution and has little to do with the beauty of these mosaic bindings. Michon said that the bindings come from the Derome workshops, the actual bindings perhaps but not the decoration, we can see that Michon believed that the decoration was also the work of Derome and that is obviously false and untrue and should be stricken from the records, his work is the cause of a huge cloud of confusion that is still being propagated today by so called "experts". |
| I have carefully examined these roulettes in Comparative Diagram 5, and there can be no doubt that these imprints derive from the same tool, close inspection of the enlarged imprints reveals identical characteristics. |
| It is no surprise therefore that we see in Comparative Diagram 6, more Dubuisson imprints on the binding of La Cena de la ceneri . However there remains one troubling question, when were these bindings made? I have not seen the roulette shown in the diagrams above, on any other Dubuisson bindings, however a very similar roulette is seen on Delorme's signed binding in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. Another clue may be in the imprint pd-80. In my study of the Dubuisson Almanach Royal mosaics found in the Royal Library in Madrid, this imprint did appear before 1758 which then happened to be the last Dubuisson mosaic binding in their collection of the Almanach Royal. The Almanachs after that date have plain bindings without decoration.. In the 1754 Almanach Royal we saw the introduction of some new tools including the roulette palette and the pd-73pair. In 1757 we see the introduction of what was to become Delorme's signature mosaic |
| One cannot help but wonder how these nearly identical bindings can be 15 years apart, either Pierre Delorme learned how to do this from Dubuisson, or he made both bindings. If Delorme made both bindings then he could have also made these mosaics. The roulette may hold the answer to this question, even more bizarre is that fact that Derome le jeune started using a very similar roulette near the end of his career. (Click here to see it) |
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