1753 1st ed ART of Famous Painters Flemish German Dutch Descamps Portraits SET



‘Lives of Flemish German and Dutch Painters’ is one of the best 18th-century biographies on European art. Written by Jean-Baptiste Descamps, this work is an extensive collection of short biographical sketches on famous artists and painters many of which with coinciding portrait engraving. Notable painters include:

Otto van Veen

Peter Paul Rubens

Rembrandt

Ambrose Holbein

These biographies are considered to still be useful, even into the 21st century.



Item number: #5650

Price: $599



DESCAMPS, Jean Baptiste



La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des portraits gravés en taille-douche, une indication de leurs principaux ouvrages, & des réflexions sur leurs différentes manieres



Paris, C.A. Jombert, 1753-60.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes

Vol. I – xvi, 429, [11]

41 engravings

Vol. II – [4], 480, [8]

53 engravings

Vol. III – xvi, 402, [8]

43 engravings

FAMOUS Provenance: Armorial Bookplate

D.D. Le Tellier de Courtanvaux.

“François-Michel-César Le Tellier, marquis de Courtanvaux (1718-1781) was Captain-colonel of the Hundred Swiss (Cent-Suisses). When ill health caused him to leave his successful military career in 1745, he actively pursued various branches of science: his book collecting was concentrated on science and voyages of exploration. In this he was stimulated by the inheritance in 1764 of the considerable library of his son, Charles-François-César, marquis de Montmirail. The marquis de Courtanvaux continued to acquire books to form 'one of the outstanding libraries of the age'(op. cit.). After his death it was sold by Jean-Luc Nyon, Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu François-César Le Tellier Marquis de Courtanvaux, Paris, 1782, le 4 mars et les jours suivants, who prefaced the catalogue with a tribute to the library and both father and son 'who had no other object in its formation than to satisfy their liking for the Sciences and Arts and to contribute as far as they could to their perfection'.” (Christie’s - Sale #7982 / London - July 6, 2011)

Language: French

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20cm x 13cm)



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