Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale…

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Woodcut royal coat-of-arms to title. 59 pp. 12mo (164 x 98 mm.), 20th-cent. green morocco-backed marbled boards (by Blanchetière), spine ornately gilt, t.e.g. Paris: l’Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi & de l’Académie Royale de Peinture, 1787.


Scarce livret produced for the 1787 Salon in Paris. Ca. 115 artists exhibited 327 paintings, drawings, sculptures, engravings, etc. The exhibition presented the work of Brenet, Suvée, Vernet, Weyler, Callet, Vigée-Lebrun (pp. 19-20), Labille-Guiard (pp. 21-22), David, Wertmuller, Peyron, Perrin, Hall, Bilcoq, Pajou, Bridan, Boizot, Houdon, Comte de Parois, Porporati, Venon, Monot, etc. A finely bound copy of this rarity, livrets of the Paris Salon are now rare on the market.


❧ 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…

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