Lot 431
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Eaux-fortes de Antoine van Dyck, reproduites et publiées par Amand-Durand. Texte par Georges Duplessis.
DUPLESSIS, Georges
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Paris, Amand-Durand, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Goupil & Cie; Vienna, C.J. Wawra, 1874
Folio: [2]-11 pp.; 21 pl. (min. spotting on front wrapper (title) and edges of vol., some offsetting of the pl.).
Loose in printed paper wrapper. Good copy.
Beautiful publication, complete with 21 heliographic reproductions of etchings by Van Dyck, each plate on tinted laid paper and in a folder of strong laid paper, with descriptive letterpress (numbered I-XXI). Containing i.a. the portraits of Jan Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Erasmus, Frans Snyders, Antonius Triest, Lucas Vorsterman and the famous self-portrait. "Amand-Durand [...] fut l'inventeur d'un procédé perfectionné d'héliogravure par lequel il rendit de précieux services à l'étude des arts graphiques" (Lugt). He used the same heliographic procedure for the works of Rembrandt, Dürer and other old masters. Title in red and black.
Prov. Amand-Durand (stamp on verso of all pl., Lugt 2934).