Author: (Collectif) Houssaye, a.o. - Greuze
Title: L'Artiste, revue du XIXe sicle. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Rdacteur en chef Arsne Houssaye. XXXVIIe Anne, Numero du 1er Octobre 1868: Greuze
Description: Paris, Bureau de 'Lrtiste, H. Plon et la Librairie Internationale, 1868 Small folio (29x20 cm). Contemporary red halfmorocco, spine gilt in compartments; morocco cornerpieces; covers marbled paper; gilt lines around the leather, marbled endpapers; top gilt, uncut. - Beautiful binding. - 136 pp. With illustrations and steelengraved frontispiece "La Cruche casse", 1 woodengraved plate "La Statue" and 2 folding cupperengravings (39x27,5cm (almost no margins) and 37x27,5 cm) "La fille pleureuse" and "Laetitia" : oval portraits surrounded by chaplets of flowers. - From the contents: X. De Villarceaux. Inauguration de la statue de Greuze; A. Houssaye, La jeunesse de Greuze; Thophile Gautier, Greuze et Chardin; Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, La peinture de Greuze; P. de Chennevires, Un roman de Greuze; Charles Coligny, Greuze dans la Rvolution; Posies; etc. All the contributions dealing with Greuze. - Interior with lightbrown spots, a few leaves a bit more than others, due to the paper, but overall a good copy in a nice binding. - Rare . Gewicht/Weight: 800 grs.

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