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Francisco Pacheco : sus obras artísticas y literarias : Introducción é historia del libro De descripción de verdaderos retratos de ilustres y memorables varones : que dejó inédito § Libro de descripción de verdaderos Retratos, de ilustres y memorables varones por Francisco Pacheco en Sevilla 1599
Seville, Imp. de E. Rasco, 1886Two volumes (31.5 and 37 cm), I: 104, lxxix (9) pp., including 1 tipped-in colour plate. II: [214] pp., including 94 tipped-in colour plates. “Nota para la colocacion de los retratos” tipped onto endpaper. Harmonious leather bindings. - Photolithographic reproduction of the manuscript Libro de retratos (Biblioteca de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano. Signatura: M 6-1; Inventario: 15654), together with a commentary by the scholar and owner of the manuscript for some 40 years, José María Asensio y Toledo (previously published at Seville in 1867). The manuscript contains fifty-six bust portrait drawings in black and red chalk and grey wash and forty-four “elogios”, short biographies, written by Pacheco or other writers, in honour of contemporary, “illustrious and memorable” men. The subjects portrayed are all Spanish with the exception of the Flemish painter Peter de Kempeneer; work on the book probably began late in sixteenth century (the frontispiece is dated 1599). On the methods and techniques of reproduction used in this facsimile (produced 1881-1884), see Juan Carrete Parrondo, “El Libro de retratos de Pacheco” in Goya 193-195 (July-December 1986), pp.168-173. Marta Cacho Casal, “The ‘true likenesses’ in Francisco Pacheco’s Libro de retratos” in Renaissance Studies, volume 24 (2010), pp.381-406. ¶ Ink stamp on first leaf on each volume: Manuel de la Puente y Cueva | Sevilla. Hinges of volume II reinforced, endpapers discoloured. -
Goya: engravings and lithographs. Foreword by Sir Anthony Blunt
Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1964Two volumes (36 cm), I (Text and illustrations): xv, 234 pp., 155 illustrations. II (Catalogue raisonné): xiii, 458 (2) pp., 181 tipped-in collotype plates. Uniform publisher’s orange cloth boards. - The standard catalogue of Goya’s prints, dealing with every known print in detail, as well as drawings for prints which were not used (such as five prepared for Los Caprichos), with appendices on the merits of each edition of each series, a listing of watermarks in the papers used, index of working and trial proofs arranged by the public collections in which they are found. “There is no doubt that this is the definitive publication to date… it is hard to believe that it will ever be superseded” (Joseph C. Sloane, in The Art Bulletin, volume 51, June 1969, p.193). This original edition is far superior to the reduced reprint (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1983) in the clarity of the plates. Freitag 4661; Riggs p. 318. ¶ Slight sun to spines. Pencil ownership inscription of Jörg Schäfer on pastedown - Zisska & Kistner, Auktion 30, Munich, 28-31 October 1997, lot 2314. -
Jusepe de Ribera, grabador 1591-1652 (catalogue for an exhibition held in the Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Valencia, 13 January-12 February 1989; and at the Calcografia Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 23 February-28 March 1989)
Valencia, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, 1989(22 cm), 113 pp., 37 black & white text illustrations, unnumbered reproductions of all the prints. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of the first ever exhibition of Ribera’s prints in Spain. The text (in Spanish and English) is a revised version of the relevant section of the author’s Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings (Princeton 1973). Two controversial prints, previously rejected, are here accepted: The Lamentation (no. 17) and Cupid whipping a Satyr (no. 18); the rest of Brown’s rejected attributions remain unchanged. A provisional census of impressions is provided. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Art and architecture of Spain
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1998(30 cm), 575 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A survey spanning 30,000 years featuring fourteen short essays by noted specialists, among them “The art of the Renaissance” (by Fernando Checa), “The Baroque” (Joan-Ramon Triado), and “Francisco de Goya” (Manuela Mena Marques). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes : graphic masterpieces from a private collection (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, New York, 28 January 2014)
New York, Christie's, 2014(30 × 23 cm), 53 (3) pp. (some folding), colour illustrations. 34 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The top lot was ‘Los Caprichos’, the complete set of eighty etchings, which realized $1,445,000. The sale total including buyer’s premium was $3,824,625 (94% of the lots sold). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.
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