Paris,: Treuttel Et Würtz, Libraires, Rue De Bourbon, No 17;, A Strasbourg Et A Londres,: Même Maison De Commerce., 1823.
Physical Description
xii, 435, [1] p.; 223 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-t., t.p.] - Préambule - [Text] - Table Des Paragraphes Contenus Dans Cet Ouvrage.
Responsibility Note
The printer is named on the half-title verso: 'Imprimerie de Jules Didot, l'aîné, Imprimeur de Roi.'
References
RIBA, Early printed, 3 (1999), no. 2680, p.1592.
S. Lavin, 'Architectural imitation', in S. Lavin, Quatremère de Quincy and the invention of a modern language of architecture (1992), p.[102-]113.
Summary Note
A variant title is given on the half-title page: 'Essai Sur L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux-Arts'.
An admirer of ancient Greek art, the author became a hostile critic of Romanticism; and in this essay deplores contemporary indifference to history painting and preference for 'realism' and less exalted subjects.
An English translation was published in 1837, as An essay on the nature, the end and the means of imitation in the fine arts.
Reproductions
A facsimile of this and other works was published in 1980, with introduction by D. Porphyrios, as De l'imitation 1823 (Brussels: Archives d'Architecture Moderne).
Copy Note
Imperfect: lacks the half-title.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Quatremere De Quincy Essai Sur L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux Arts.'
Subject
Imitation - Aesthetics - Art - Arts - Theory
Essays - France - 19th century