Choix des productions de l'art les plus remarquables exposées dans le Salon de 1817 / par P. M. Gault de Saint-Germain.

Pierre-Marie Gault De Saint Germain

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/991

Author

Imprint

Paris: P. Didot, l'Ainé, MDCCCXVIII

Physical Description

32 p., 1 plate: port.; 203 mm.

General Note

The plate bound with this work as a frontispiece is of the 'Colossial Statue of Napoleon, / From the Column in the place Vendome Paris. / Take down by the Allies in 1814.' It is not clear whether this plate belongs with this work published in Paris in 1817 or not. The statue was sculpted by Antoine-Denis Chaudet.

Provenance

Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (10) in vol. II of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.

Binding Note

In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / II'.

Subject

Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France) (1817) - Painting, French 19th century ; Exhibitions - Art, Modern 19th century France Paris Exhibitions

Contributors

Antoine-Denis Chaudet, source artist
Mrs. Rodwell, donor
Richard Westmacott the Younger RA, previous owner
Pierre Didot, printer/publisher