Author: LAMI, Eugéne
Title: Panorama Du Bois de Boulogne 1828 [Bound with] Six Quartiers de Paris
Description: Paris: Delpech, 1828. A Fine Collection of Two Extremely Rare Suites by Eugène Lami LAMI (Eugène). Panorama du Bois de Boulogne 1828. Paris, Delpech, [1828]. First edition. Oblong folio (9 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches; 248 x 346 mm.). Vignette lithographed title-page and 10 (of 12) hand colored lithograph plates. All plates mounted on stubs. Plates Nos. 1 and 11 are missing, as almost always, the first even being “untraceable,” according to Lemoisne. Rare: OCLC/KVK locate just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide. 12 lithographs (10 color) 26 x 35 cm: Clark Art Institute (MA,US). Bound together with: LAMI, Eugène. Six Quartiers de Paris. Paris: Chez Delpech, 1828. First edition. Oblong quarto. (10 3/8 x 14 inches; 264 x 355 mm.). Lithograph vignette title in sepia and six hand colored lithographed plates. All plates mounted on stubs. Complete as issued. Not to be confused with a similar title with hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier. Rare: OCLC/KVK locate no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. Bound together in late nineteenth century half green morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered horizontally in gilt, spine faded. With the bookplate of the Claude Rebeyrat library on front paste-down. Eugène Lami (1800 -1890). “This elegant and brilliant painter devoted much of his time to lithography between 1817 and 1833. The son of an Empire bureaucrat, [Lami] grew up in Paris. Beginning in 1815, he studied painting with Horace Vernet and afterwards in the studio of Baron Gros-To support himself he made lithographs for several albums, including in 1822 a Collection des uniformes des armées françaises, de 1791 à 1814-Lami paid his first visit to England in 1826, during which he drew the sketches which resulted in his Souvenirs de Londres-under [Henry Monnier’s] guidance [he] comprehensively explored London and the countryside. Indeed, Monnier provided more than a third of the twenty-eight designs which make up Lami’s finest album, the Voyage en Angleterre. It is here that for the first time Lami struck his distinctive note in lithography. These precise and sparkling plates, which show England in its most attractive aspects, brought the lithographic recording of the passing scene to an unprecedented level of grace and refinement. Lami’s Tribulations de gens à équipages of 1827 and Six quartiers de Paris- treat French subjects in the same manner-After Lami gained recognition as a painter, he became a frequenter of the fashionable world, which he rendered with sympathy and brio. His chief albums of this kind are the charming Vie de château, published in two series in 1828 and 1833, and the Quadrille de Marie Stuart” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 203). The Plates: Panorama of the Bois de Boulogne 1828. 2. Le Harnais Neuf 3. En Marchand de Chevaux Anglais 4. Une Course Particulière 5. Tilbury 6. Coupé 7. Un Duel 8. La Grande Allée 9. Une Averse 10. Chevaux de Louage 12. La Partie d'Anes Six Quartiers de Paris 1. Le Faubourg St. Honoré 2. Le Marais 3. Le Faubourg St. Germain 4. La Chaussée d'Antin 5. Quartier de la Bourse 6. Quartier St. Denis Bobins III, 1185; Bobins V, 1544; Ray, p. 203. .

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