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DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE. Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux pei…
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DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE. Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux pei…
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Estimate €600 - €800
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DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE.
Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, avec leurs portraits gravés en taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, quelques réflexions sur leurs caractères...
Paris, de Bure, 1745-1752.
3 volumes large in-4. Contemporary speckled fawn calf, ribbed spine, fawn title and endpapers on volumes I and II, red and havana on volume III, ornate boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (edges and corners slightly rubbed, light scattered brown spots).
The illustration consists of a copper-engraved frontispiece by Fessard after Latouche and around 500 copper-engraved in-text portraits of painters by Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, English and French artists, some of them expressive and finely executed, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio and Primaticcio.
21 vignettes are left empty without a portrait of the painter, including two with portraits pasted into the vignettes, as can be seen in other copies. It was not possible to produce all the portraits and here some have been added after the event.
Volume I. (5) ff. including frontispiece, XLVIII-443 pp. with portraits - Volume II. (1) f., VIII-483 pp. with portraits - Complete with Volume III (Supplement). XVIII-322 pp, portraits.
Provenance: Bibliothèque de Monsieur ARLAULT, de l'Ordre de St Louis Chartres, Capitaine comm à Toul du Corps royal d'artillerie avec son ex libris sur vergé azuré.
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