La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des portraits [...].

4 vol., 8vo: front.-xvi-429-[11], [4]-480-[8], xvi-402-[6-2 bl.], viii-302-[24] pp. (some min. spotting and foxing, some annotations in the tables).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red and green leather title labels, all edges red (joints and corners skillfully restored). Nice copy.

First edition of this reference work by the French painter J.-B. Descamps (1714-1791) containing numerous biographies of painters in alphabetical order. Engr. ill.: front. by Lebas and 2 armorial headpieces by Le Mire after Descamps, 168 half page portraits by Ficquet, Gaillard, Legrand i.a. after Descamps, Eisen and Campion showing i.a. Quinten Metsys, Bernard van Orley, Maarten van Heemskerck, H. Holbein, P. Brueghel, Maarten de Vos, Abraham Bloemaert, A. Van Dyck, Jan Steen, Gérard de Lairesse. Titles in red & black.
Ref. Brunet II:608. - Cohen 287. - Conlon 53:598. - Arntzen & Rainwater H88.
Prov. Georges & Flore-Geneviève Dubois (gilt green shagreen bookpl.). - Jean Jacobs (bookpl. signed A. v. Eyll [19]73).