[Grands Reportages]Livre Rare Book
Grondig onderrigt in de teeken- en schilderkunst inzonderheid in miniatuur ten nutte van jonge kunstoefenaren. Naar het Fransch van Mansion.
18301361Leeuwarden 1830. 12mo 15.5 x 9 cm. Lambertus Schierbeek Contemporay purple half morocco gold- and blind-tooled spine. With folding lithographed frontispiece coloured by hand showing a palette of colours. XII incl. frontispiece 131 1 blank pp. Rare first edition of a schoolbook on art teaching beginners the basic rules of drawing and painting especially in miniature. Eelke Jelles Eelkema an artist himself adapted the book after a French work by the miniaturist painter André Léon Larue known as Mansion for use of his own pupils. It contains 32 brief chapters covering a wide array of subjects: how to polish ivory how to draw an old man's face how to choose the right brushes how to paint velvet or lace how to position and enlighten the model etc.In very good condition only very slightly browned with a few small spots. Binding very slightly rubbed but also very good.l WorldCat 4 copies; NCC same 4 copies. ABE CAT Art History unknown
Asher Rare Books · Pays-Bas500,00 €
