Notice des Tableaux exposés dans la Galerie Napoléon

by Louvre

$150 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

152 pp. Small 8vo 159 x 100 mm. , cont. paste-paper wrappers spine partly perished , stitched as issued. Paris: L. P. Dubray, 1810. First edition of this uncommon exhibition guide and catalogue. Customarily, the French school would appear last in such guides; however, here, the school is placed first. This catalogue lists 1233 paintings, which were displayed in the portion of the Louvre renamed to celebrate Napoleon. This exhibition constituted a

• Binding: Wrappers

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