Live auction - Lot 112
[Painting]
L'école de la miniature, dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans Maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs; l'or bruni, & l'or en coquille [...]. Nouvelle édition, augmentée.
Brussels, J. Moris, 1759
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo.
Contemp. calf, covers gilt-ruled with a roll-stamp and fillet, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (head missing, tail def., sl. rubbed).
Guidebook on painting and miniatures, often reprinted (1st 1672). With a dictionary at the end. Title in red & black.
Ref. Barbier II:15. - BnF.
Prov. Stamp on title.
Joined: Mensaert, Guillaume-Pierre - Le peintre amateur et curieux [...]. Bruxelles, P. de Bast, 1763. 2 vol., 8vo (front. missing; some foxing, marg. stain in vol. II). Contemp. half sheep (sl. rubbed). Unique edition of a survey works of art in "Brabant et Seigneurie de Malines" (vol. I) and "La Flandre, le Hainaut, Namur, &c." (vol. II). (3 vol.)