Accession number
PML 2866
Creator
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
Published
Paris, Chez Desève, artiste-éditeur, et Deterville, libraire: de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, [1809]
Notes
Originally issued in 1808 in 13 parts, with title: Galerie de Rubens, dite du Luxembourg, aujourd'hui palais du Sénat conservateur, dessinée et gravée sous la direction de M. Deséve, avec le texte explicatif de M. Moithei, revu par R. Castel.
Plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress.
Comprises 25 stipple engravings by J. Duthé and many others after Rubens' allegorical paintings of the life of Marie de Médicis, with some of the colors printed, the others added by hand.
Frontispiece: Portrait of Rubens, eng, in colour by J.L. Banoist after Le Clere.
... after the paintings by Rubens of portraits of Marie de Medicis, her father Francesco I de Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, her mother Jeanne d'Autrich grand duchess of Tuscany, Henri IV, Louis XIII, as well as of events in their lives.
This series of paintings in now in the Louvre.
See: Brunet, IV, 1443. See: Cohen-de Ricci, col. 915.
Plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress.
Comprises 25 stipple engravings by J. Duthé and many others after Rubens' allegorical paintings of the life of Marie de Médicis, with some of the colors printed, the others added by hand.
Frontispiece: Portrait of Rubens, eng, in colour by J.L. Banoist after Le Clere.
... after the paintings by Rubens of portraits of Marie de Medicis, her father Francesco I de Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, her mother Jeanne d'Autrich grand duchess of Tuscany, Henri IV, Louis XIII, as well as of events in their lives.
This series of paintings in now in the Louvre.
See: Brunet, IV, 1443. See: Cohen-de Ricci, col. 915.
Description
25 col. plates (incl. 4 ports.). 56 cm
Binding
1/2 brown morocco.
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