Author: SOUST de Borkenfeldt Adolphe van - [ ] Salon Bruxelles 1857 :
Title: Etudes sur l'Etat de l'Art en Belgique et sur son avenir. L'Ecole Belge de Peinture en 1857.
Description: .: Bruxelles, Emile Flateau, 1858, in-8°, 23 x 15 cm, iv + (6-159) + 56 + 8 (tables), bound in contemporary half leather, gilt title on raised spine (L. Pernot-Verstraeten , relirur ''sic'' rue Savaen 58). Small ex-library stamp on title. Binding with some use. Van Soust was director for the Fine Arts at the Ministry of Interior Affairs and as such the highest civil servant responsible for Belgian art policy. This book contains information on the Brussels' Salon of 1857. (See also B.N. vol.XXIII pp 270-271). .

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