Author: STROOBANT, F[RANÇOIS]. Schücking, Levin.
Title: Der Oberrhein. Kunstdenkmale und Landschaft. Malerische Ansichten nach der Natur gezeichnet und in farben lithographirt von F.Stroobant. Mit einem beschreibende Texte von Levin Schu¨cking.
Description: Brüssel, Leipzig & Gent, Carl Muquardt, [ca. 1860]. 32 pages text. 24 chromolithographed / tinted plates, drawn & lithographed by Franc¸ois Stroobant. Orig. h.calf, gilt tooled spine; gilt tooled & embossed front - & backcover. Folio. - Corners & spine-ends worn; cover sl. soiled & discol.; title-pages & text pages with some foxing & each with a light waterstain at the top & bottom margin (not affecting the text); tissue guards waterstained (plates not affected, except for the two prints entitled La Cathedrale de Bale & Ancien cloître de la cathedrale de Bale which are very lightly waterstained at the top of the image); margins of plates sl. foxed; outer edge of last plates waterstained along the edge; a library stamp on both title-pages.* An extremely rare topographical work with fine lithographed plates by François Stroobant. We could only trace one copy in Universita¨tsbibliothek Freiburg (OCLC-number: 313579024). - - François Stroobant (14 June 1819 Brussels - 1 June 1916 Elsene) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, and brother of the lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814-1872). He attended the Brussels Académie des Beaux-Arts between 1832 and 1847, studying under François-Joseph Navez, Paul Lauters and François-Antoine Bossuet (1798-1889). In 1835 he worked in the studio of the lithographer Antoine Dewasme-Plétinckx (1797-1851) in Brussels. Stroobant's subjects were mainly landscapes and architecture. He travelled extensively through the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Hungary, exhibiting in the galleries of the Belgian towns Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. His romantic painting style stayed constant throughout his career. He was founder and first director in 1865 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels.

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