PORTULAN ATTRIBUTED TO OLLIVE (François) MANUSCRITE... Lot 35

[PORTULAN] ATTRIBUTED TO OLLIVE (François) MANUSCRITE MARINE MAP OF THE WEST FACADE OF EUROPE AND AFRICA. France (Marseille), c. 1660 Small double-sized folio map (390 x 540 mm), on parchment, cities in red and yellow ink, continents, countries and seas in yellow ink, outlines in blue ink; enhanced with gouache and liquid gold. Central fold, traces of paper and glue on the back. Precious and rare marine map called Portulan, executed in Marseille in the middle of the 17th century, on parchment in brown ink, enhanced with colored gouaches and liquid gold, attributed to a member of the famous family of Italian cartographers settled in Marseille, François Ollive. TEXT Our nautical chart indicates to the navigators the various ports, the navigable rivers, the relief of the coasts from Scotland to the current Western Sahara. It is enriched with the coats of arms of the countries, fleur-de-lys, one of which is held by two tritons, sea monsters, a phylactery and a golden frame. It was probably made around 1660 by Francois II Ollive, hydrographer and geographer, from an Italian family settled in Marseille at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Several documents survive from this artist dating from the same period including an atlas sold at our house on June 16, 2018 (lot 23). Another nautical chart dated 1661 and preserved in the Sociedad Bilbaina confirms the attribution (see Portolans procedents de col.leccions espanyoles segles XV-XVII (Barcelona, 1995), p.259, chart 52-1)].The BnF preserves in the department of maps and plans, three sheets extracted from a nautical atlas, of which the second is signed and dated: "Franciscus Oliva me fecit in civitate Marsilia. 1661" and others dated 1662 (BnF, Cartes et plans, CPL GE D-6589 (RES) and CPL GE A-850 (RES)).