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