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MERIAN, Matthaüs - La Danse des morts, comme elle est dépein…
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602
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MERIAN, Matthaüs - La Danse des morts, comme elle est dépein…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
MERIAN, Matthaüs - La Danse des morts, comme elle est dépeinte dans la louable et célebre ville de Basle, pour servir de miroir de la nature humaine. Drawn and engraved on the original by the late Mr Matthieu Merian. A description of the town of Basle has been added & verses to each figure - Todten-Tanz, wie derselbe in der lobl. u. Welt-beruhmten Stadt Basel als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenheit kunstlich gemahlet und zu sehen ist. Nach dem Original in Kupfer gebracht nebst einer Beschreibung von der Stadt Basel, 1744. Basel, Jean Rodolphe Im Hof et fils, 1789. Pet. in-4, 190 pp, several russets, black half-chag. spine smoothly decorated.
BRUNET III, 1650. bilingual French-German edition. Engraved title, 43 mid-page copper engravings by Anton Chovin after Matthäus Merian. The Basel Dance of Death was painted around 1440 on the inner wall of the cemetery of the former preachers' monastery in Basel, which was demolished in 1805. Merian's engravings, first published in Basel in 1621 and again in 1649, are a valuable record of the genesis and history of this sadly lost work of art. Ex-libris A. de Farcy (Attached:) HOLBEIN, Hans - L'Alphabet de la mort de Hans Holbein. Surrounded by 16th century borders and followed by ancient French poems on the subject of the three deaths and the three lives. Published from manuscripts by Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris, Edwin Tross, 1856. In-8, ed. perc.,(96) pp. printed in small numbers on Whatman paper.
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