L'Art de Peindre, Claude Henri Watelet, First edition, 1760, Leather

  

Period speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, five engraved vignettes showing putti reading, drawing etc. Eight portrait medallions, seven culs-de-lampe, and two full-page plates, by Watelet after Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, and three culs-de-lampe by Marguerite Lecomte.

Minor rubbing; a few leaves browned, 5 leaves with marginal creasing and short tears, a few insk spots on front, near fine. As a young man he worked for several years with his father, but left to become an artist and amateur. On his inheritance he was able to open a salon, and through his friends Cochin and Pierre became very influencial. Watelet was elected to the French Academy the same year of the publication of L'art de peindre. The second half of the work is decorated with his vignettes, for he was a talented etcher. Diderot said that if he had a copy of Watelet's poem he would cut out the illustrations and frame them under glass, and throw the rest in the fire. This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "yamhillbook" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year Printed: 1760
• Topic: Poetry
• Binding: Leather
• Author: Claude Henri Watelet
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: French
• Publisher: H. Delatour
• Place of Publication: Paris
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated