WATELET (Claude-Henri) - GESSNER (Salomon) The art of painting. Poëme avec des réflexions sur les parties de la peinture. Paris, Guérin & Delatour, 1760, in-4, full red morocco, gilt fillets à la Du Seuil with gilt fleurons at corners, ribbed spine, richly decorated with gilt motifs, gilt int. dent, marbled linings and endpapers, gilt tr. (R. Raparlier). ORIGINAL EDITION. With frontispiece, title finial, 5 vignettes, 8 portrait medallions and 2 line figures after Watelet. Our copy is enriched with original artist's drawings and a large number of closely related 18th and 19th century figures in handsome proofs. Joints worn.
Estimate
€2,000 - €3,000
Result
€2,000
Buyer's premium
26.4%
WATELET (Claude-Henri) - GESSNER (Salomon)
The art of painting. Poëme avec des réflexions sur les parties de la peinture.
Paris, Guérin & Delatour, 1760, in-4, full red morocco, gilt fillets à la Du Seuil with gilt fleurons at corners, ribbed spine, richly decorated with gilt motifs, gilt int. dent, marbled linings and endpapers, gilt tr. (R. Raparlier).
ORIGINAL EDITION. With frontispiece, title finial, 5 vignettes, 8 portrait medallions and 2 line figures after Watelet. Our copy is enriched with original artist's drawings and a large number of closely related 18th and 19th century figures in handsome proofs. Joints worn.