A Paris,: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune., 1809.
2 vols. [in one]; 201 mm. (Octavo.)
Vol. I: [T.p.] - Avis Important - Discours Préliminaire - [Text and plates]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text and plates] - Table Alphabétique Des Peintres Contenus Dans Les Deux Volumes.
The plates are unsigned.
The context of Lebrun's work is explored in C.B. Bailey, 'Lebrun et le commerce d'art pendant le blocus continental', in Rev. A., 63 (1984), p.35-46; F. Haskell, Rediscoveries in art (1976), p.18-23.
The two volumes wre effectively a sale catalogue of Lebrun's collection; which was sold in March 1810.
The plates show paintings by (Vol. I) Cimabue, Leonardo, Fra Bartolomeo, garofalo, Bronzino, A. del Sarto, Fattore, Salviati, Vasari, P. da Cortona, Dolce, Bellini, Titian, Giorgione, S. del Piombo, G. da Udine, Bassano, Tintoretto, Veronese, Varotari, Palma vecchio, Palma giovane, Turchi, Piazetta, D. Tiepolo, J.B. Tiepolo, Canaletto, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Barocci, Feti, Dughet, Romanelli, Maratti, Lucatelli, Correggio, Carravaggio, Mazzuoli Parmigiano, Procaccini, L. Caracci, Ag. Carracci, Ann. Carracci, Schidone, Guido Reni, Cavedon, Tiarini, F. Albano, Domenichino, Ant. Carracci, Guercino, Bolognese, Crespi, Pannini; (Vol. II) D'Arpino, Preti, S. Rosa, Giordano, Strozzi, Castiglione, Ribera, Velazquez, Murillo, Cano, Coello, Brill, Calvart, Vandyck, Van Oost, D. Teniers, Rembrandt, A. van de Velde, Vlieger, Swanevelt, Berchem, Moucheron, Ruysdaal, J. and A. van de Velde, G. Lairesse, Vermeer, Dujardin, Mengs, Poussin, Claude, Lefevre, Lemoine, David, Fabre, Mlle Gerard.
A verso of a preliminary leaf is inscribed in pencil 'J M A[?] M Smith 137 New Bond St'.
There are pencil annotations on some plates, relating to the ownership of the paintings.
19th-century mottled calf, upper and lower covers having neoclassical border stamped in blind; rebacked in 20th century, spine decorated in blind, brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Recueil De Gravures Par Le Brun', spine lettered 'R.A.'