Claude-Henri WATELET
The Art of painting. Poem. With reflections on the different parts of painting.
Paris, Guérin & Delatour, 1760
In-4°. Full contemporary grained calf. Spine with 5 nerves decorated with gilded boxes and fleurons. Dishes surrounded by double gilt fillets. Red edges. Rubs and swellings to the boards. Corners worn. Very fresh inside.
First edition including a title frontispiece, a title vignette, 13 vignettes including 8 medallions with portraits of Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Leonardo da Vinci, etc., 6 culs-de-lampe and 2 plates engraved by Watelet. On strong paper. Nice copy
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