Histoire abregée des plus fameux peintres, sculpteurs et architectes Espagnols.
Paris.
Chez Delaguette, 1749.
First edition in French.
12mo.
[4], 389pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, speckled edges. Rubbed, joints split. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of J. B. Bury to FEP, scattered spotting.
The first edition in French of this significant work on Spanish artists compiled by Baroque painter Acisclo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (1655-1726).
First published in 1724, appearing as the third and final volume of Palomino's El museo pictorico y escala optica, the book contains the first biographies of many eminent Spanish artists, notably Diego Velázquez.
Provenance: From the library of pioneering art historian and author John Bernard Bury (1917-2017).
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 19797
First published in 1724, appearing as the third and final volume of Palomino's El museo pictorico y escala optica, the book contains the first biographies of many eminent Spanish artists, notably Diego Velázquez.
Provenance: From the library of pioneering art historian and author John Bernard Bury (1917-2017).
