Les Plat-Fonds ou les Tableaux des Galeries de l'Eglise des R. R. P. P. Jesuites d'Anvers. Peints par P. P. Rubens. Dessinez d'apres les veritables originaux par Jacob de Wit & gravez en cuivre par Jean Punt.
Amsterdam: Jean Punt, 1751. Hardcover. Black library buckram. Title page and 2 pp introduction, followed by a portrait of Rubens and 36 additional engravings. In French. Oversize. Good+. Very tight and no chips or tears but ex-library with marks: number stamp on title page; an ink stamp on the front of each plate, overlapping the image edge; damp stain primarily affecting the portrait plate and plates 1, 2 & 33-36, mostly in the margins, though it slightly overlaps the corners of a few of the etchings; faint soiling and foxing to title and text, with even less on innermost plates. Plates 20 and 24 are printed on a slightly shorter and lighter paper than the others, and their numbers are penciled in. Library binding is VG shape. Item #132976
A series of engravings reproducing the ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1620-1621 and destroyed by fire in 1718. Dutch artist Jacob de Wit was studying the artist's work and had sketched the ceiling panels a few months before they were destroyed. Not only are they very beautiful engravings, they are one of the key artifacts, besides the oil sketches of Rubens himself, that allow for analysis of the lost work.
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