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Abrege de la vie des plus fameux peintres: avec leurs portraits graves en taille-douce
by [Antoine Joseph Dezallier-Argenville]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
NZ$1,702.20NZ$1,446.87
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About This Item
Complete set in four volumes of Dezallier-Argenville's famous Lives of the most famous painters with their portraits on copperplate
Complete with frontispiece, 4 vignettes and 255 copperplate engravings by Fessard and Aubert in decorative frames (13 empty frames as published)
Volume 1: Italian school artists from Rome, Florence and Venice
322 pages, 51 of 51 plates, and frontispiece by Boucher and vignette
Volume 2: Italian school artists from Lombardy, Napoli, Spain and Genoa
428 pages, 44 of 44 plates
Volume 3: Flemish school, German, Swiss, Dutch, Flemish and English artists,
473 pages, 97 of 97 plates and vignette
Volume 4: French school
494 pages, 62 of 62 plates and vignette
Many Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Velazquez, Durer, Holbein, Lucas von Leiden, Pieter Breughel, Rubens, Watteau, Poussin, Titian, Van Dyck, etc.
Includes several women artists such as Maria Sibylla Merian, Marietta Robusti (Tintoretto's daughter), Rosalba Carriera, Elisabeth Sophie Cheron
Full calf-leather binding, five raised bands, leather title labels in red and green, gilt decoration, all edges red, bindings fine and solid, interior clean and bright with no foxing
Complete with frontispiece, 4 vignettes and 255 copperplate engravings by Fessard and Aubert in decorative frames (13 empty frames as published)
Volume 1: Italian school artists from Rome, Florence and Venice
322 pages, 51 of 51 plates, and frontispiece by Boucher and vignette
Volume 2: Italian school artists from Lombardy, Napoli, Spain and Genoa
428 pages, 44 of 44 plates
Volume 3: Flemish school, German, Swiss, Dutch, Flemish and English artists,
473 pages, 97 of 97 plates and vignette
Volume 4: French school
494 pages, 62 of 62 plates and vignette
Many Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Velazquez, Durer, Holbein, Lucas von Leiden, Pieter Breughel, Rubens, Watteau, Poussin, Titian, Van Dyck, etc.
Includes several women artists such as Maria Sibylla Merian, Marietta Robusti (Tintoretto's daughter), Rosalba Carriera, Elisabeth Sophie Cheron
Full calf-leather binding, five raised bands, leather title labels in red and green, gilt decoration, all edges red, bindings fine and solid, interior clean and bright with no foxing
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo200
- Title
- Abrege de la vie des plus fameux peintres
- Author
- [Antoine Joseph Dezallier-Argenville]
- Illustrator
- Fessard, Aubert
- Format/Binding
- Full calf leather with five raised bands
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- De Bure l'Aine
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1762
- Pages
- 322, 428, 473, 494
- Size
- Octavo, 20 x 13cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Antoine Joseph Dezallier-Argenville, lives, copperplate, engraving, artist, painter, art history, biography, European art, art history, old master,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Portraits;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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