Author: WIERTZ Antoine Joseph - [ ] Bruxelles Salon 1842 - 1851 :
Title: Oeuvres Littéraires.
Description: .: Bruxelles, Parent & Fils éditeurs, 1869, in-8°, 552 pp . Bound in contemporary red half morocco, decorated gilt spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Kept in a modern matching slipcase. Upper joint split over 5 cm, inside a clean and stainless copy. With a fine portrait photograph of Wiertz and a photograph of one of his paintings and with 4 lithographs. A rare book which unites the literary works of the eccentric 19th-c. Belgian painter Wiertz, which consist mainly of critical essays on the Belgian "Salon" exhibitions of 1842 and 1851; a study on Rubens and one on the Flemish School and a technical study on painting. The book is also important because of the 2 original photographs of Fierlants (see: "E.Fierlands 1819-1869" by S.F.Joseph and T.Schwilden p.170, bibliography F.12). .

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