[First Edition] LA VIE DES PEINTRES FLAMANDS

Half-Leather: Very Good, French, 1st Edition, 5 volumes, illustrations, book condition: Very Good Five-part set, complete, uniformly full leather bindings, typical minor wear on the spines and corners, the bindings are still very good and sturdy, the first pages of the books show very light browning, all illustrations are present as well as the large fold-out map in volume V. A complete, monumental 18th-century collection on the art history of the Netherlands and Germany. This unique ensemble consists of two complementary titles that together form the most important reference work on Northern and Southern Netherlandish painting from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Volumes I-IV (17531763): Contains hundreds of chronologically ordered biographies of Flemish, Dutch, and German masters (starting from the brothers Van Eyck). These richly illustrated volumes are famous for their157 finely detailed portrait medallionsand allegorical vignettes, printed in the text via copper engraving (taille-douce). Volume V (1769): The accompanying first edition of theVoyage Pittoresque. This is regarded as one of the very firstart travel guidesin the world. Descamps describes in detail for each city and church exactly which masterpieces (including those by Rubens and Van Dyck) could be admired in the 18th century, illustrated with a large fold-out map and various copper plates. [This description may have been translated by AI.]

Estimate:£567.46

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