Catalogue d’une Collection de Dessins et Estampes, Livres d’arts, Planches gravées, quelques Tableaux, etc, Dont la Vente se fera le 17 Juin et jours suivants…Par Bénard

96 pp. Small 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed paste paper boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine.Paris: Bénard, 1816.

The rare sale catalogue of this impressive varied auction. Antoine François Piéri Bénard (fl. 1810-40), prominent art dealer and for a time marchand de la Bibliothèque du Roi, advised Eugène Dutuit on his art collecting. In the present catalogue, he thoroughly describes 504 lots. Pages 60-77, numbered separately, contain meticulously detailed and considerable group lots. These lots consist of the works of van Dyck, Hollar, Hondius, de Jode, Pontius (almost three full pages), and Vorsterman. Lots 418-75 details a selection of books of prints, catalogues raisonnés, sales catalogues, and the essential art historical reference works of the time.

Nice copy. Some annotations cropped. We locate only one copy in North America.

❧ British Museum online biography of “Antoine François Pieri Bénard.” Lugt 8923.