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an old book with a picture of a man standing in front of a windowan old drawing of a man with a beard wearing a coata pile of papers and a book sitting on a tablea book with a picture of karl girardet on itsomeone is reading a book on a table with a cup of coffeean old black and white drawing of a mountain with a village in the backgroundtwo drawings of a woman sitting on a couch with a dogdrawing of a drawing of a building with a clock tower in the backgroundan old drawing of a view of a mountain with a house on topan image of a drawing of a man standing in front of a lakedrawing of a man with a hat and tie standing in front of a buildingan old book sitting on top of a white table next to a white wallan old book sitting on top of a white table next to a cup
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164 - GIRARDET, Karl. Album of Travel Sketches.
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Estimate €100 - €150
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Description
GIRARDET, Karl. Album of Travel Sketches. First edition of this album featuring travel drawings and sketches (Switzerland, Egypt, Tyrol and Italy), reproduced as heliogravures. No place [Paris], no publisher [Sandoz], no date [1883]. 1 in-4 booklet (44 pp., printed blue cover); one engraved portrait and 100 plates reproduced as heliogravures; all housed in the publisher’s cardboard slipcase with flaps in green percaline, decorated with a black and gold design on the top cover. Scuffing to the slipcase, one flap detached, foxing. First edition of this album presenting, reproduced as heliogravures, the travel drawings and sketches by Karl Girardet (1813–1871) from between 1840 and 1850 in Switzerland, Egypt, Tyrol and Italy. The engraved portrait is by Robert Girardet and the heliogravures by Max Girardet, the painter’s nephew. An introduction by Auguste Bachelin (1830–1890), a Swiss art historian and painter. Enclosed: the subscription form (two-page folio sheet). Karl Girardet (1813–1871), who trained in Paris under Léon Cogniet, was the official court painter to Louis-Philippe. He distinguished himself in history painting, Romantic landscape and Orientalist scenes.
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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