Author: DAVIS, JACQUES-LOUIS, LOUIS DUCIS, a.o.
Title: Galerie du Luxembourg en trente-deux sujets. Ouvrage gravé avec grands soins, par une re´union d'artistes les plus distingués.
Description: À Paris, Chez Décrouan, [1829]. Engr. title-page & 32 copper engravings (chine appliqué), engraved by Augustin-Francois Lemaître, Polydore Pauquet, Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers, Louis Hercule Sisco, and many others, after paintings by Jacques-Louis David, Alexandre Menjaud, Jean-Antoine Laurent, Louis Daguerre, Louis Ducis, Jean Baptiste Regnault, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, a.o., each plate with the adress F. Noël, Graveur-Éditeur, Rue St-Jacques 38. Orig. publisher's h.leather binding with embossed & gilt stamped red paper boards. Large 4to. [ca. 38 x 29 cm.]. - Worn along the extrimities (corners worn, etc.); upper hinges loose; small part of lower part of spine missing; endpapers & margins of plates with foxing; tissue guards creased. Scarce complete collection of 32 engravings after paintings in the Galerie du Luxembourg in Paris. This publication offers a perspective of the state of the art of engraving in the decade before the announcement of the invention of the daguerreotype. Included is a.o. the the beautiful engraving of Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s famous painting 'Négresse' (1800), drawn and engraved in 1829 by the French artist Polydore Pauquet (1800 - 1879). Also included in this work is an engraving after Louis Daguerre’s painting, Chapelle des Feuillants (1814) by Augustin-Francois Lemaître. Several plates bearing a blind stamp of the Galerie du Luxembourg. - We have based the dating on a few plates on which it is indicated under the image that they were engraved in 1828 and 1929.

Keywords: France-art Graphic 19th century France Franse kunst Grafiek 19e eeuw Frankrijk