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Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil
Paris, Loys Delteil & Maurice Le Garrec, 1925-1927Two volumes (30 cm), I: 411 (5) pp., frontispiece and [17] plates. II: (4) pp., 231 plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers (text) and cloth-back portfolio tied with ribbons (plates). - Catalogue raisonné for the French engraver Robert Nanteuil (1618-1683), still the principal authority (230 prints by, and 10+ doubtful and unfinished prints). The catalogue is based on the authors’ collection, purchased en bloc in 1928 by Lessing Rosenwald (Ruth Fine, Lessing J. Rosenwald: tribute to a collector, Washington, DC 1982, p.125). “Ouvrage destiné à la Société pour l’Étude de la gravure française à Paris, mais dont la publication, déjà retardé par la guerre de 1914, est encore compromise par le décès de Ch. Wickert en 1918” (F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes, The Hague 1921-1956, L.608). “Il a été tiré de ce catalogue: 750 exemplaires (dont 50 hors commerce)”. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. Loosely inserted is a [4] pp. prospectus and specimen plate (”prix de souscription: 200 francs”). -
Inventaire du fonds français : Graveurs du seizième siècle : Tome premier : [Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau – Thomas De Leu] § Tome second : Levert – Woeriot [Anonymes; Supplément; Tables]. Inventaire du fonds français : Graveurs du XVIIe siècle : Tome premier : Alix (Jean) – Boudeau (Jean) § Tome II : Boulanger (Jean) – Chauveau (François) § Tome III : Chauvel – Duvivier § Tome IV : Ecman – Giffart § Tome cinquième : Gilibert – Jousse § Tome sixième : Labbe – La Ruelle § Tome septième : Lasne (J.) – Leclerc (P.) § Tome 8 : Sébastien Leclerc, I § Tome 9 : Sébastien Leclerc, II § Tome 10 : Leclercq – Lenfant § Tome 11: Antoine Lepautre, Jacques Lepautre et Jean Lepautre (première partie) § Tome 12 : Jean Lepautre (deuxième partie) § Tome 17 : Claude Mellan. Inventaire du fonds français : Graveurs du dix-huitième siècle : Tome premier [Jean Adam – Maurice Baquoy] § Tome II : Baquoy (Pierre) – Bizac § Tome III : Bizemont-Prunelé (Comte de) – Cars (Laurent) § Tome quatrième : Cathelin – Cochin Père (Charles-Nicolas) § Tome cinquième : Cochin Fils (Charles-Nicolas) – H. Dambrun § Tome sixième : Damontot – Denon § Tome septième : Deny (Mlle Jeanne) – Du Duy-Delage § Tome huitième : Duflos (Claude) – Ferée § Tome neuvième : Ferrand (François) – Gaucher (C.E.) § Tome dixième : Gaugain – Gravelot § Tome onzième : Greuze – Jahandier § Tome douzième : Janinet – Launay § Tome treizième : Laurent – Le Grand § Tome quatorzième : Legras (Les) – Lequien
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, [1930]-1999Twenty-nine volumes (28-29 cm), uniformly bound in collector’s quarter-morocco (23 volumes), or as issued in publisher’s bindings (6 volumes). - Indispensable catalogue of the holdings of French prints at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A near-complete set of these three series, lacking two recent volumes, both still in print: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, 13: Pierre Lepautre, issued in 2008 (in print, €115; ISBN 9782717723953; http://editions.bnf.fr/) and Graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, 15: Georges Louis Le Rouge: les jardins anglo-chinois, published in 2004 (in print, €60; ISBN 9782717723083; http://editions.bnf.fr/). Five volumes are in facsimile reprints published 1967-1968; all other volumes are original editions. ¶ In superb state of preservation. -
Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVII siècle : Introduction par Julien Cain
Paris, Les Beaux-arts / Presses Universitaires de France, 1957(28 cm), (8) 292 (4) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth binding. - A catalogue of 239 prints after Poussin, and 13 prints perhaps after him (to 1700). Appended (pp.278-282) is “Le Premier catalogue des gravures d’après Poussin”, from Florent le Comte’s Cabinet des singularitez (Paris 1699). Reprinted from Gazette des Beaux Arts (nos. 1040-1043, September-December 1955) in an edition of 500 copies. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
L’Art de Jacques Callot
Paris, Fernand de Nobele, 1962(32 cm), 329 (3) pp., 64 black & white plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers, plain Mylar jacket. - Includes “Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres de Callot” with concordance to Meaume, Lieure, and the author’s catalogue of Callot’s drawings. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Geofroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier imprimeur royal, réformateur de l'orthographie et de la typographie sous François Ier : Deuxième édition
Nieuwkoop, B. de Graaf, 1963(23 cm), (4) viii, 411 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - Part “II. Bibliographie” occupies pp.79-184. Facsimile reprint of the revised, second edition (Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865). Publisher’s retail price €85 (www.brill.com; link). ¶ Excellent copy. -
Jacques Callot. A Selection of prints from the collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald (catalogue of an exhibition held in the National Gallery of Art, 3 February-17 March 1963)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1963(26 cm), 48 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Essay by Elizabeth Mongan (pp.9-22) and 58 catalogue entries. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Honoré Daumier : Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, watercolours and drawings
London & Greenwich, CT, Thames & Hudson / New York Graphic Society Ltd, 1968Two volumes (29 cm), I (The paintings): 446 pp., 208 black & white plates, 19 black & white text illustrations, and tipped-in black & white photo of Daumier by Nadar as frontispiece. II (The Watercolours and drawings): 619 pp., 1190 illustrations on 325 black & white plates, 31 black & white text illustrations. Errata slip loosely inserted. Uniform publisher’s blue cloth, spines with maroon and gilt design; top edge gilt; original slipcase with printed label. - “One of the best and most valuable oeuvre catalogues of a 19th century artist” (from a review by Douglas Cooper, in Master Drawings, volume 6, 1968, pp.405-410). The paintings are listed in what Maison believes to be their chronological sequence; the 826 authentic drawings, plus a further 16 attributions, are grouped by subjects. ¶ Copy B556 of 1500. Fine copy. -
Le Livre français illustré de la Renaissance : étude suivie du catalogue des principaux livres à figures du XVIe siècle
Paris, A. & J. Picard, 1969(22 cm), (4) 322 (8) pp., plus 16 leaves of plates. Rebound in red cloth, black skiver lettering-piece (a collector’s binding). - Originally published as Le livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle (Paris 1930). Although the eleven chapters of introduction remain virtually unchanged, the catalogue is vastly expanded, from some 500 to nearly 700 entries, and the total illustrative material has nearly doubled. Reviewed by Arthur Rau, in The Times Literary Supplement, 9 April 1970, p.392. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Berlin, Bruno Hessling Verlag, 1970(30 cm), 476 pp., 1045 black & white text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Catalogue of the architectural and decorative drawings in Berlin, based in large part on a collection purchased from the French architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Alexandre Destailleur (1822-1893) in 1879. ¶ From the library of Joseph Clemens, Prinz von Bayern (1902-1990), sold by Schneider-Henn, Kunstbücher und Dokumentation aus der Bibliothek Joseph Clemens Prinz von Bayern, Munich, 11-12 May 1992, lot 471. Fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. -
Jean Barbault 1718-1762 (catalogue of an exhibition held at Musée Départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais, 3 October-15 November 1974; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, 1 December 1974-15 January 1975; and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence, 1 February-15 March 1975)
[Beauvais], Musée Départemental de l'Oise, 1974(25 cm), 76 pp., 88 monochrome illustrations on [16] leaves of plates. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - First retrospective exhibition of the little-known work of this French painter who worked in Rome, producing mainly figure studies and landscape. Publishes new chronology of the artist based on recent research. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The etchings of Jacques Bellange (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Center, Des Moines, 7 October-16 November 1975; later shown in Boston and New York)
Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, 1975(29 cm), 86 pp., illustrations. Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - 68 catalogue entries. The prints were drawn from the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other North American collections. ¶ Slight shelf wear; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
Jacques Callot : prints & related drawings (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 29 June-14 September 1975)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1975(22 × 28 cm), xxiv, 351 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue for a loan exhibition of 200 prints and fifty preparatory drawings. Also exhibited were the copper matrices for Callot’s first great cartographic war series, The Siege of Breda. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Jacques Callot : artist of the theatre
Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1976(22 × 29 cm), xiii, 118 pp., 92 illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A selection of about 90 prints which depict a theatrical presentation, its performers, the stage on which it is presented, or the audience in attendance. Accompanying these illustrations is an analysis of Callot’s iconography and a study of the relationship of Callot’s art to the theatre. ¶ Dust jacket chipped, clean tear (1 cm); otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy. -
Nicolas de Staël. Drawings and engraved work : with a preface by Denys Sutton and an essay by Nicolas Barker (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Taranman Gallery, London, 12 October-18 November 1981)
London, [Skelton's Press, Northamptonshire, for the] Taranman Gallery, 1981(26 cm), 56 (6) pp., illustrations. - 400 copies printed. ¶ Presentation inscription by the author, dated 14 May 1982. Very good copy. -
Architettura come pittura : Jean Laurent Legeay un piranesiano francese nell'Europa dei lumi (Saggi e documenti)
Milan, Electa Editrice, 1982(24 cm), 247 (1) pp, profuselyillustrated. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes “Catalogo ragionato” (167 entries). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Claude Lorrain 1600-1682 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 17 October 1982-2 January 1983)
New York, George Brazilier / National Gallery of Art, 1982(28 cm), 480 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial wrappers. - Representative selection of paintings, drawings and etchings from all periods of Claude’s career. Includes an appendix by Catherine Nicholson on watermarks found on Claude’s prints and drawings. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Jacques Callot and the theatre (catalogue of an exhibition in the Museum Studies Program, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, 25 January-2 March 1986)
Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, 1986(28.5 cm), [33] pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An essay on the influence of the theatre and commedia dell’arte on Callot is followed by a catalogue with commentaries and some illustrations. ¶ Very good copy. -
Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle. Avec un catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés par Cochin 1735-1790 (Publications de l’École Pratique des Hautes études, Paris, IVe Section, Sciences historiques et philologiques, VI: Histoire et Civilisation du Livre, 18)
Geneva & Paris, Librairie Droz / Librairie Champion, 1987(25 cm), x, 431 pp., 168 illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “A book of considerable value which no scholar of the eighteenth century can henceforth ignore” (from a review by Pierre Rosenberg, in Print Quarterly, volume 5, 1988, pp.300-302). Includes a chronological catalogue of the books illustrated by Cochin (pp.170-363). Publishers’ retail price €77 (www.droz.org; link). ¶ Wrappers lightly finger-marked; otherwise a fine copy. -
Inventaire du Fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle : Tome 10 : [Leclercq – Lenfant]
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1989(28 cm), 185 (3), pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed cloth (no dust jacket issued). - Original edition. ¶ As new -
Laurent de La Hyre 1606-1656 : L’homme et l’oeuvre (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée de Grenoble, 14 January-10 April 1989; continued elsewhere)
Geneva, Editions d’Art Albert Skira & Musée de Grenoble, 1989(29 cm), 383 pp., 70 colour plates, c. 400 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue for a monumental exhibition of 150 paintings, drawings, and etchings, borrowed from over sixty private collections and fifty public and religious institutions in eleven countries; it is “practically a catalogue raisonné of La Hyre’s oeuvre in all media” (from a review by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., in Master Drawings, volume 31, 1993, pp.179-184). “La Hyre Graveur” with a “Liste chronologique des gravures” (pp.47-56). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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