Arman

1899 · 73943 — Paris: Georges Petit 1899. First edition Folio 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. 122 text pages followed by 52 pages of engravings with original tissue guards. Frontispiece engraving of Doria essay on the life of the Count Armand Doria by Arsene Alexandre and a Preface by M. L. Roger-Miles. Publisher's printed wrappers. Some minor aging to wrappers and creases to spine but solid clean no chips and fresh. Uncut and unopened. A very good copy.Issued in the same year as Armand Doria's two part auction catalog also issued by Georges Petit but considerably scarcer. Count Doria was a man of vision and a patron of the arts and an art collector. For example he was a patron to Adolphe-Félix Cals who stayed in his castle for an extended period of time. Other long-term guests were Gustave-Henri Colin and Victor Vignon. Count Doria also invited Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet.Count Doria was the owner of The Roman Campagna with the Claudian Aqueduct an 1826 painting by Corot which is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in London. Another Corot painting View of Olevano is at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth Texas. He purchased many more paintings by Corot over the years. He was also the owner of La Leçon de Tricot by Jean-François Millet. Another Millet painting he owned View of Farm Buildings across a Field is now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Count Doria also owned La maison du pendu by Paul Cézanne but he exchanged it with art collector Victor Chocquet for another Cézanne painting La Neige fondante. He also owned Les Grands boulevards by Pierre-Auguste Renoir which is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Georges Petit unknown