Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale, Dont l’exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l’intention de Sa Majeste, par M. le Comte de la Billarderie d’Angiviller…
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Woodcut coat-of-arms & woodcut headpiece. 56 pp. & one leaf of ms. Early 19th-cent. marbled semi-stiff wrappers (149 x 95 mm.), leather lettering-piece on spine. Paris: veuve Herissant, 1781.
Scarce livret for the 1781 Paris Salon, with a manuscript addendum detailing eight more works that were displayed. Ca. 87 artists exhibited at least 318 paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings, etc. Artists such as Doyen, Brenet, Taraval, Vernet, Renou, Casanova, Guerin, Robert, Huet, Vallayer-Coster, Wailly, Pérignon, Suvée, Callet, Parrocel, Pajou, Berruer, Houdon, Boizot, Julien, Cochin, etc. participated in this year’s Salon. In fine condition.
❧ Documenting the Salon: Paris Salon Catalogs 1673-1945 (National Gallery of Art Library: 2016).
Scarce livret for the 1781 Paris Salon, with a manuscript addendum detailing eight more works that were displayed. Ca. 87 artists exhibited at least 318 paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings, etc. Artists such as Doyen, Brenet, Taraval, Vernet, Renou, Casanova, Guerin, Robert, Huet, Vallayer-Coster, Wailly, Pérignon, Suvée, Callet, Parrocel, Pajou, Berruer, Houdon, Boizot, Julien, Cochin, etc. participated in this year’s Salon. In fine condition.
❧ Documenting the Salon: Paris Salon Catalogs 1673-1945 (National Gallery of Art Library: 2016).
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Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale, Dont l’exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l’intention de Sa Majeste, par M. le Comte de la Billarderie d’Angiviller…
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