Livre Nouveau de Differents Trophées Inventez par A. Watteau by Watteau, Antoine [1684-1721] - 1735

Paperback / softback. New.

Stuttgart ; Leipzig : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Title page detached but loosely inserted. Some minor loss to the spine. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of the Metropolitan Museum of art, New York with its bookplate. Series; Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben ; 21. Bd. Physical description; xxvi, 200 p. : front., ill., plates, ports. ; 26 cm. Notes; Plates printed on both sides. Captions to plates in German, English and French. Subjects; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Criticism and interpretation. Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721). Genre; Illustrated.

London, etc. : Hamlyn, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper (price clipped). Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 44 p., 132 plates : illus., port.; 32 cm. Subjects: Watteau, Antoine 1684-1721. Watteau, Antoine 1684-1721 Criticism and interpretation. Drawing, French. Drawing, Flemish. French drawings Watteau, Jean Antoine Illustrations. Genre:Art. Illustrated.

New York : Hacker Art Books, 1970. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 49 p. 117 plates ; 30 cm. Subjects: Watteau Antoine 1684-1721; Drawing, French; Artists France 18th century; Watteau, (Jean-)Antoine, 1684-1721.

Leningrad : Aurora, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in full, title-blocked raw linen. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Suggested date of publication. Physical description: 153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 40 cm. Title also in Russian. Includes bibliographical references. Subject: Watteau, Antoine - 1684-1721.

Paris: F. De Nobele, 1957. 4to. 2 vols. 224 x 3 cm. Original beige cloth. I: xviii. 294pp. with 531 sepial collotype illustrations; I: [6], pp. 305-654 with sepial collotype illustrations numbered 532-954. OCLC Number 2039948...Presentation copy to the celebrated connoisseur Claude Roger-Marx, signed by Mathey...Expertise by Alain Nicolas and Pierre Gheno Paris.

Paris: chez Gersaint et chez Surugue, 1747. Engraving, printed on laid paper. Very good condition with the exception of some repair in the bottom right hand corner of sheet. Image size: 13 7/8 x 19 inches. A charming arabesque depicting a group of children playfully engaged in an argument, from Moyreau's "Oeuvres Des Estampes Gravées d'après Les Tableaux & Desseins de feu Antoine Watteau." Born in Valenciennes in 1684, the versatile artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was primarily renowned for his fête galante paintings depicting aristocratic men and women amorously conversing in the outdoors. Following a brief apprenticeship to the local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, Watteau moved to Paris in 1702 where he later studied with Claude Gillot, scene painter for the comédie italienne, who introduced him to the commedia dell'arte, which later became a recurrent theme in his work. In 1708, he began to work with the decorator Claude Audran, under whose tutelage he produced several innovative ornamental… Read More