Annales du Musee et de L'Ecole Moderne des Beaux-Arts ... : Paysages et Tableaux de Genre (vols. 1-2)
Paris: C. P. Landon; Annales du Musee, 1805. Hardcover. 2 vols. Brown leather with gilt bands and letters on spine; gilt outlines on boards; total 185 pp., 144 BW engraved plates. G (Edges of bindings are worn and covers have scuff, limited foxing to pages, most plates are crisp and clear, though the plates may have caused tanning to adjacent pages.). Item #139178
Text is in French. 2 supplemental volumes to the master work of art history compiled by French artist-writer Charles Paul Landon (1760-1826), begun in 1801 and said to eventually fill 33 vols. These are the first two landscape and genre table volumes, with full engravings unlike the illustrations accompanying most of Landon's basic set.
Price: $300.00