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DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. L'école d'Uranie, ou l'art de la peinture. 1780.

Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 

DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 

L'école d'Uranie, ou l'art de la peinture. 

Paris, Saugrain & Lamy - Barrois, aîné, 1780.

12mo (162x102 mm), xl-310-(2) pages.  binding : Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, red edges. Corners and caps chipped. One joint splitting on 2,5 cm. A minor waterstain in margin on few pages. 

Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 

This book is devoted to the poetic work of the painter and art critic Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy (1611-1668), who was a student of Simon Vouet and a friend of Pierre Mignart.
It consists in the poem "De Graphica" in Latin and French, the notes by Roger de Piles on the poem, a text by Du Fresnoy on the great painters, an index of pictorial terms and the poem "Pictura" in Latin and French.

provenance: Auguste Joly (bookplate on few pages).

Price : 90 €

Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
Photo DU FRESNOY, Charles-Alphonse || DE MARSY, François-Marie || [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, A.-G.]. 
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