Author: BASAN François :
Title: Collection de Cent - Vingt Estampes, gravées d'après les Tableaux & Dessins qui composoient le Cabinet de M. Poullain, Receveur Général des Domaines du Roi, décédé en 1780...dédiée à M. Le Comte D'Orsay. Cette suite a été exécutée , sous la direction du Sieur Fr. Basan....Le Sr. Moitte, Peintre, en avoit fait les Dessins....
Description: .: 19. Paris, chez Basan et Poignant , 1781, small in-folio, 31 x 23 cm, title with wood-engraved vignette + (4) nn pp (with copper engraved vignette, signed Choffard) + 22 pp + 120 copper engravings on 116 leaves, 19th century dark green half leather binding, raised gilt back, marbled end-papers, nice uncut copy. The plates were executed under the direction of François Basan and are interpretation copper-engravings of the paintings in the collection of Mr. Poullain. Among the painters are Brueghel, Blanchard, Veronese , Lorrain , van Everdingen , Gerard Dou , Houbraken , Lairesse , Rembrant , Rubens , Van Dyck...The text at the beginning contains short biographies. (Lewine p.46). Plate 14 represents a painting by Jacques Blanchard, now in the Metropolitan Museum. It was sold in 1780 in the LeBrun sale and acquired by the Comte d'Orsay. In 1790 it was in the Basan sale. So all three persons involved in this catalogue owned this painting at some point. This provenance history is probably exemplary for other paintings in the collection. .

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