Author: Julius S. Held
Title: Rubens Selected Drawings
Description: London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume first edition set of this collection of works from Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens, with the original slip case. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Volume one is illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece, four colour tipped in plates, and sixty-one in-text black-and-white figures. Volume two is illustrated with one hundred and seventy-nine plates. Collated complete. A collection of the drawings of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish artist and diplomat considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. With chapters on the types and techniques of Rubens' drawings, their functions, copes made by Rubens of classical and Italian works, drawings retouched by Rubens, his development as a draughtsman, and more. With reference to books and articles on Rubens' drawings. Includes an introduction and critical catalogue by Julius Samuel Held, an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor fading to the spines. Original slip case is smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Sunning to the panel edges with the odd small mark. A 2" crack to the top panel. Overall, very good. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Peter Paul Rubens. Fine .

Keywords: Rubens Selected Drawings Held Selected Peter Paul Rubens


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