Author: HOET Gerard - Pieter TERWESTEN :
Title: Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Benevens een Verzameling van Lysten van Verscheyden nog in wezen zijnde Cabinetten. 3 Volumes (including the continuation by Peter Terwesten).
Description: .: 's Gravenhage, Pieter Gerard van Baalen 1752 (for Eerste Deel en Tweede Deel), Johannes Gaillard 1770 (continuation by Peter Terwesten) , 3 vols in-8°, xii + 614 pp + ca. 30 pp index ; iv + 538 pp + ca. 30 pp index ; xlviii + 725 pp, bound in nearly uniform contemporary full leather, raised spines with gilt decoration and two title labels. Bindings sound but with some wear at extremeties ; headcaps damaged and partly missing, some corners slightly bumped and with slight loss of leather. Interior fine except for vomume III which has some leaves with ink stains (also title leaf). Nothwithstanding these defects still a good/fine set. Compilation of the auction sale results of painting sales organised in the Low Countries, mostly Holland (Amsterdam, The Hague, Dordrecht etc. but also in Antwerp, Brussels..) The first volume starts with a sale in Amsterdam in 1684 and goes on for another 63 sales up till 1739. The second series gives another 60 sales and ends with the description of still extant (in 1762) painting collections. The rare third volume, published in 1770 gives approx. another 100 art auction sale catalogues and ends with a 32 pp list of the painting collection of the Prince of Oranje. This is certainly one of the first ''Art Indexes'' ever compiled. It contains valuable information on the art trade and the general artistic climate in the Low Countries in the 17th and 18th century. .

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