Recueil De Notices Historiques Lues Dans Les Séances Publiques De L'Académie Royale Des Beaux-Arts A L'Institut Par M. Quatremère De Quincy Secrétaire De Cette Académie.
Paris.: Adrien Le Clere Et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires, Quai Des Augustins, No 35., 1834.
Physical Description
viii, 429, [1] p.; 223 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Blank leaf, half-t., t.p.] - Note De L'Éditeur - [Text] - Table Des Notices Contenues Dans Ce Volume.
Responsibility Note
The decorations are unsigned.
Summary Note
The notices are on architects Chalgrin, Gondoin, Dufourny, Peyre, Heurtier, Bonnard, Hurtault; painters Vincent, Van Spaendonck, Prud'hon, Girodet, Guérin; musicians Paisiello, de Monsigny, Méhul; sculptors Lecomte, Dejoux, Roland, Dupaty, Lemot, Houdon, Cartellier; antiquary Visconti; engravers Duvivier, Bervic.
The work is not illustrated; but is decorated with a title-page vignette and tailpieces.
Binding Note
19th-century half black morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Quatremère De Quincy - Notices Historiques I' and 'R.A.'
Subject
Artists - Architects - Painters - Sculptors - Engravers - Musicians - Scholars - Antiquaries - France - History
Biography - Art history - Lectures - France - Paris - 19th century