THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
[RUBENS, Peter Paul]. La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg peinte par Rubens, dessine par les Srs. Nattier, et grave par les plus illustres graveurs du temps. Paris: chez Duchange, 1710.
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[RUBENS, Peter Paul]. La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg peinte par Rubens, dessine par les Srs. Nattier, et grave par les plus illustres graveurs du temps. Paris: chez Duchange, 1710.
Broadsheet (615 x 465 mm). Engraved throughout. Title, 1p. text (verso blank), portrait of Rubens after van Dyck by J.Audran, engraved dedication leaf, 24 plates (3 double-page) after Rubens by Benoit Audran, J.Audran, Duchange, l. de Chastillon, G.Edelinck, Trouvain and Vermeulen and 3 duplicated pates before lettering (some browning and staining). Later half calf (worn, backstrip perished). Provenance: Claiborne Pell (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The plates, after Rubens, take the form of an allegorical history of the life of Catherine de Medici. Cohen-de Ricci 915.
Broadsheet (615 x 465 mm). Engraved throughout. Title, 1p. text (verso blank), portrait of Rubens after van Dyck by J.Audran, engraved dedication leaf, 24 plates (3 double-page) after Rubens by Benoit Audran, J.Audran, Duchange, l. de Chastillon, G.Edelinck, Trouvain and Vermeulen and 3 duplicated pates before lettering (some browning and staining). Later half calf (worn, backstrip perished). Provenance: Claiborne Pell (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The plates, after Rubens, take the form of an allegorical history of the life of Catherine de Medici. Cohen-de Ricci 915.