LE BRUN, Jean Baptiste Pierre - Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands (Gallery of Flemish, Dutch and German painters), a work enriched with two hundred and one plates engraved after the best paintings by these masters, by the most skilful artists of France, Holland and Germany: avec un texte explicatif pouvant servir à faire reconnaître leur genre et leur manière, et faire prononcer sur le mérite et la valleur de leurs productions; des notes instructives sur la vie de plusieurs peintres dont aucun auteur n'avait parlé; et une table alphabétique des noms des maîtres, la plus complète et la plus étendue qui ait paru jusquà̕ ce jour. Paris, chez l'Auteur, Poignant - Amsterdam, Pierre Fouquet jr, 1792-1796. 3 volumes in two in-folio volumes, 3 fronts, 198 plates, russet, green bronze half-chag. with corners, ornate ribbed spine, gilt tr., qqs. epid.
COHEN 422. Le Brun, born 1748, husband of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, was a renowned art dealer who acquired paintings for the King. He was curator of the collections of the Duc d'Orléans and the Comte d'Artois. Among the paintings that passed through his hands reproduced in this collection are works by Berghem, Breughel, Bloemaert, Breughel de Velours, Cuyp, Philippe de Champaigne, Jordaens, Karl du Jardin, Frans Hals, Holbein, Van Goyen, Van der Meulen, Van Loo, Hobbema, Porbus, Rembrandt, Ruysdael, Van Ostade, Teniers, Van Dyck and others. In his notes, Le Brun gives selling prices.
Provenance: Collection of Marquis Alphonse d'Aoust (1819-1909); by descent to the present owner.
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