Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale…

by Paris Salon

$500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Woodcut royal coat-of-arms to title. 60 pp. 12mo 172 x 103 mm. , 20th-cent. half-green morocco over marbled boards by Blanchetière , spine ornately gilt, t.e.g, with cont. decorative wrappers bound-in. Paris: l’Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi & de l’Académie Royale de Peinture, 1789. Scarce 18th-century Salon livret; WorldCat records only three examples in North America. Ca. 117 artists participated and presented a total of 335 works.

• Binding: Leather

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