Geschichte der modernen französischen Malerei seit 1789 zugleich in ihrem Verhältniss zum politischen Leben, zur Gesittung und Literatur. Von Dr. Julius Meyer. - Mit 31 in Holzschnitt ausgeführten Abbildungen.
[2], vii, [1], 794 p., [31] pl. (incl. frontis.) (that facing p.485 is folding); 225 mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
The plates carry no numbers, but are numbered 1-31 in ' Verzeichniss der Illustrationen'. Each carries the number of the page next to which it is to be bound - but that carrying page-number 214 is bound in as the frontis., and that carrying page number 498 is listed as facing p.513.
Contents
[Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - Vorwort - Inhalt - Verzeichniss der Illustrationen - [Text and plates] - Namenregister; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The plates are captioned with the names of source-artists; but most are not signed. That facing p. 57 appears to be signed 'K&R'(?); those facing pp. 98, 132, 'E.Ade. X.A. Stuttgart'; that facing p. 342, 'TC'(?).
The printer is named in the colophon: 'Druck von G. Grumbach in Leipzig.'
References
P. Bordes and R. Michel, edd., Aux armes et aux arts ... 1789-1799 (1988); M. Marrinan, Painting politics for Louis-Philippe (1988).
Summary Note
The plates show paintings by David, Girodet, Gérard, Gros, Prud'hon, Géricault, Delacroix, Scheffer, Decamps, Robert-Fleury, Ingres, H. Flandrin, Bénouville, Cogniet, Vernet, Delaroche, Robert, Baudry, Cabanel, Breton, Meissonnier, Gérome, Brion and Fromentin.
Provenance
Purchased for RA Library in 1885 (see RA Annual Report for 1885, p. 47).
Binding Note
19th-century half brown morocco, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Geschichte Der Modernen Französischen Malerei Julius Meyer', 'R.A.' and 'Leipzig 1867'.
Subject
Painting - Paintings - Painters - Artists - France - History - 18th century - 19th century
Art history - Germany - 19th century
Pictorial works - Germany - 19th century