Goya. Paul Lafond, Les Artistes de Tous Les Temps. Serie C Les Temps Modernes
first edition Hardcover
1902 · Paris
by Goya] Lafond, Paul
Paris: Librairie George Baranger, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 190pp., 9 x 12 with French text. An unfamiliar, frontispiece self-portrait [Self-Portrait with Spectacles, c. 1800, engraved by M. Dezarrois] by the Spanish master Francisco Goya. Lafonds publication includes 98 pages of text with additional Bibliography, Addendum, Errata and an extensive Catalog of Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs. Illustrated with 14 crisp, single-page etchings (gravures, heliogravures and lithographs) and more than 60 reproductions throughout text. The etching Un mendiant (A Beggar) attributed to Goya and is now known to be by the Spanish painter, Eugenio Lucas Velasques (1817-1870), a long-time admirer of Goya's work. Others include: Flameng, Lavalley, De Los Rios, Dezarrois, Lafond, Jacquemart, Fuchs, Bracquemond, and more after Goya. Nearly fine with gilt lettering on the leather spine and marble covered boards with corners and edges bumped. Interior pages and engravings nearly fine with the first few pages lightly pulling from binding. (Inventory #: KC16634)