Abrege de la vie des plus fameux peintres: avec leurs portraits graves en taille-douce. Google Translate: Summary of the Lives of the most famous painters with their portraits

Abrege De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, avec Leurs Portraits Graves en Taille-douce, Les Indications De Leaurs Principaux Ouvrages, Quelques reflexions sur leurs caracteres, et La Maniere De Connoitre Les Desseins et les Tableaux Des Grands Maitres... Nouvelle Edition, Revue, corrigee & augmentee de la Vie de plusieurs Peintres. 4 volumes Translated from French: Abridgment of the Lives of the Most Famous Painters, with Their Portraits Engraved in Copperplate, Indications of Their Principal Works, Some Reflections on Their Characters, and How to Recognize the Drawings and Paintings of the Great Masters... New Edition, Reviewed, corrected & augmented with the Lives of Several Painters. 4 volumes

Author: Dezallier-Argenville, Antoine Joseph

8vo.(5" x 7.75") 4 volumes. 1762. Dezallier-Argenville, Antoine Joseph. Paris: De Bure. Typical 18th century French brown leather (see pic). Spines with five raised bands, gilt title to gilt framed burgundy leather to second compartment (vol.III lacking), gilt subtitle/vol# to third compartment, heavy (faded) gilt decoration to each other gilt rule framed compartment. Marbled endpapers, all edges reddened. Head and foot of spines chipped, with loss (see pic). Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss. Covers with minor rubbing, except vol IV which has scrapes and a hole in leather to rear board (see pic). Armorial bookplate of Earl of Roden K.St.P and a case/shelf sticker (see pic) to front pastedowns, bookseller's penciled notes to first front free flyleaf of vol.I. Overall, a beautiful set of 18th century volumes in their original bindings.

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

From Wiki: The family of Dezallier d'Argenville produced two writers and connoisseurs, father and son, in the course of the 18th century. The father, Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765) is now best known for writing the fullest French treatise on the French formal garden style of his lifetime, as well as books on natural history, and as a significant collector of old master prints.

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