Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale…

by Paris Salon

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Woodcut royal coat-of-arms to title. 59 pp. 12mo 164 x 98 mm. , 20th-cent. green morocco-backed marbled boards by Blanchetière , spine ornately gilt, t.e.g. Paris: l’Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi & de l’Académie Royale de Peinture, 1787. Scarce livret produced for the 1787 Salon in Paris. Ca. 115 artists exhibited 327 paintings, drawings, sculptures, engravings, etc. The exhibition presented the work of Brenet, Suvée, Vernet, Weyler,

• Binding: Leather

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