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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein: ou Recueil de Gravures d’apres les Plus Beaux Ouvrages de ce Fameux Peintre

by Chretien de Mechel

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Fine delicate engravings by Chretien de Mechel or Christian von Mechel (and Bartholomaus Hubner) after works by the Renaissance master Hans Holbein.
Incomplete copy of the first edition of these suites of engravings and sepia aquatints.
Three complete suites (Dance of Death*, the Passion of Christ and Portraits), plus several additional plates, altogether 40 engraved plates and two engraved vignettes.
Title page, 14 pages of descriptive text to the Triumph of Death with two engraved vignettes, 47 engravings on 12 plates of the Triumph of Death (Le Triomphe de la Mort) and two plates entitled Triumph of Wealth (Triumphus Divitiarum) and Triumph of Poverty (Triumphus Paupertatus); frontispiece and 12 plates to The Passion of Our Lord (La Passion de Notre Seigneur); 2 double-page fold-out engravings A Scene of the Insurrection of the Peasants and The Prophet Samuel Declared to Saul; 1 plate of the costume of a young woman of Basel from Costumes d'hommes et de femmes du seizième siècle; and 10 plates of… Read More
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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'Apres Les Plus Beaux Ouvrages de ce Fameux Peintre.
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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'Apres Les Plus Beaux Ouvrages de ce Fameux Peintre.

by Mechel, Chretien de.

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Basle; Chez Guiillaume Haas, 1780., 1780. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 4 parts in one volume; 2 engraved title leaves, 1 aquatint title and 51 plates as called for. Part I: title leaf, pp., [3]-12, [2], 12 plates with 47 numbered subjects (Holbein's Dance of Death) & 2 plates, of Le Triomphe de la Richesse and Le Triomphe de Pauvrete; Part II: engraved title leaf and 12 plates; Part III: Aquatint title leaf and 12 aquatint plates numbered in 2 sets of 6, with 3 additional un-numbered aquatint plates, of which 2 double-page; Part IV: decorative title page with blue panel & 10 portrait plates. Later black quarter morocco with gilt titles and blind ruling to spine over navy blue pebbled cloth; marbled endpapers. Spine scuffed with minor wear at tips; wear to board edges. Two different pictorial bookplates to front paste-down. Text leaves lightly toned; a little offsetting otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Mechel's edition of Hans Holbein's work, from originals in the Imperial Gallery of… Read More
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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de gravures d'après les plus beaux ouvrages de ce fameux peintre
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Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de gravures d'après les plus beaux ouvrages de ce fameux peintre

by MECHEL Chrétien de & HOLBEIN Hans

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Basle: Chez Guillaume Haas, 1780. Fine. Chez Guillaume Haas, Basle 1780-1794, 31x40cm, 12 pp. (1) 53 planches dont 2 frontispices, 4 parties reliées en un volume. - Edition originale de ces quatre suites de gravures, épreuves non coupées, gravées à l'eau-forte et en aquatinte sépia, intitulées ""Le Triomphe de la Mort"" (12 planches contenant 4 vues chacune ainsi que 2 à pleine page), ""La Passion de Notre Seigneur"" (frontispice et 12 planches), ""Costumes d'hommes et de femmes du seizième siècle"" (frontispice, et 15 planches dont 2 sur double page) et ""Portraits"" (10 planches). Reliure moderne à la bradel en plein papier caillouté, dos lisse orné d'une étiquette de maroquin rouge. Ex-libris aux armes de la bibliothèque Taets van Amerongen remonté sur le premier contreplat. La première partie est précédée de douze pages d'explication des planches, les trois autres n'en… Read More
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Basle, Chez Guillaume Haas, 1780. 4°, I.: 14 S. (Text franz.), II, 14 Tafeln; II.: Titelbl., 1 gestochenes Titelblatt, 12 Taf.; III.: Titelbl., 1 gestochenes Titelblatt, 6 Tafeln (Soldaten), 7 Tafeln (Frauen), 2 doppelblattgrosse Aquatintaradierungen (der Prophet Samuel trifft Saul, Schlachtenszene aus dem Bauernkrieg von 1525); IV.: Titelblatt, 10 Tafeln, Künstlereinband: Leder goldgeprägt in Schuckschuber, Rücken min beschienen, min. fleckig; Innen teilw. min. stockfleckig - insgesamt sehr schönes Exemplar. Meistereinband (gestempelt) von Thorvald Henningsen (1896–1977). Erste Ausgabe der ausgezeichneten Kupfer, in schönen Abzügen, mit der seltenen Totentanzfolge. - Tl. I: Le triomphe de la mort. Bezüglich der Ursprünge der Holzschnitte scheiden sich die Geister, schreibt Oppermann noch: ""Mechel (1737-1817) geht nicht auf Hollar, d. h. auf Sylvius, sondern direkt auf die Original-Holzschnitte Holbeins zurück ... Diese Totentanzfolge ist äußerst selten und kommt kaum noch im Handel… Read More
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