Pauwels (Henri), 1923-2010; Kerkhove (André van den); Wuyts (Leo), co-editors

(26.5 cm), (4) xxxvi, 594 pp., colour portrait, illustrations (many in colour). Publisher's pictorial boards. - Remembrances, checklist of Duverger's publications, and 21 essays in Dutch, French, English, and German by his colleagues and friends. Duverger published numerous articles on the production and sale of textiles, but is best known for his fourteen-volume Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw (Brussels 1984-2004). Several essays are concerned with weavers, merchants, and collectors of tapestry (Agnieszka Bender, Anne Desprechins, Maria Hennel-Bernasikowa, Jean Luc Meulemeester, Norbert Poulain); others with the production and sale of prints (Ger Luitjen, Het prentwerk van Cornells Schut; Filip Lemmens & Alfons K.L. Thus), the markets for drawings (Patrick Michel, Collection de dessins et marché de l'art en France au XVIIIe siècle) and paintings (Sophie Raux, Ryszard Szmydki). ¶ As new.