LA VENTE MARIETTE Le Catalogue Illustre Par Gabriel De Saint-Aubin by No Author - 2011

Mondadori Electa (Acc). Very Good. 2011. Hardcover. 8837071701 . Blue boards slightly rubbed. Pale blue wrapper slightly soiled and edge worn. Art collections; 9.5 X 6.2 X 1.5 inches; 464 pages .

Mondadori Electa. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 8837071701 . Clean and unmarked. Essays in English .

Milano: Electa Mondadori, 2011. A cura di P. Rosenberg. Traduzione di R. Rizzo, Lutz F. e Rodríguez X. Ristampa Anastatica. Testo Italiano, Inglese e Francese. Milano, 2011; ril., pp. 452, ill. b/n, cm 15,5x24,5. The great collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette is finally being published in five large volumes, introduced by this anastatic copy of the book which has allowed it to be reconstructed. In 1775, when all the items in the collection belonging to Pierre-Jean Mariette came under the hammer at a seemingly endless auction, an immense collection of incalculable value was disintegrated - more than 9,000 drawings, all marked with the Mariette monogram: pencil sketches by Salviati and Rubens, charcoal drawings by Watteau and others by French, Italian and Flemish artists ended up by being sucked into the mare magnum of private collectors. Today, a book kept at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston contains a description of the works that were auctioned, with illustrations of the items in the margin… Read More

Mondadori Electa, 2010. Paperback. New. 464 pages. 9.53x6.22x1.50 inches.