BERNARD, Pierre-Joseph (1710-1775). Oeuvres . Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1797. 4° (310 x 230mm). Half-title. 4 engraved plates avant la lettre after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon by Beisson (2), Copia and Prud'hon. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with rule and roll tool border amd centrally-placed ARMS OF COUNT RAZUMOVSKII, spine in six compartments with six double raised-bands, each pair of bands divided by an onlay of dark blue morocco, one compartment lettered, the others with cenral lyre tool, gilt turn-ins, purple watered-silk liners and doublures, g.e., lettered at foot of spine REL.P.BOZERIAN (Small split at foot of spine, extremities very slightly scuffed). Provenance : the Counts Razumovskii (binding). EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON PAPIER-VÉLIN FORT D'ANGOULÉME WITH THE PLATES AVANT LA LETTRE . A FINE COPY WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE OF A WORK CONTAINING PRUD'HON'S ROCOCO MASTERPIECE. 'The gem of the volume... is the design for the second poem, Phrosine et Mélidore (p.100), which Prud'hon himself engraved... No rococo design surpasses this in voluptuousness, and Prud'hon has given his scene an air of mystery to which the artists of the previous age did not aspire. Delacroix said of this drawing that by itself it served to place its creator beside Coreggio.' (Ray). Cohen/de Ricci 133; Ray 75.
BERNARD, Pierre-Joseph (1710-1775). Oeuvres . Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1797. 4° (310 x 230mm). Half-title. 4 engraved plates avant la lettre after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon by Beisson (2), Copia and Prud'hon. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with rule and roll tool border amd centrally-placed ARMS OF COUNT RAZUMOVSKII, spine in six compartments with six double raised-bands, each pair of bands divided by an onlay of dark blue morocco, one compartment lettered, the others with cenral lyre tool, gilt turn-ins, purple watered-silk liners and doublures, g.e., lettered at foot of spine REL.P.BOZERIAN (Small split at foot of spine, extremities very slightly scuffed). Provenance : the Counts Razumovskii (binding). EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON PAPIER-VÉLIN FORT D'ANGOULÉME WITH THE PLATES AVANT LA LETTRE . A FINE COPY WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE OF A WORK CONTAINING PRUD'HON'S ROCOCO MASTERPIECE. 'The gem of the volume... is the design for the second poem, Phrosine et Mélidore (p.100), which Prud'hon himself engraved... No rococo design surpasses this in voluptuousness, and Prud'hon has given his scene an air of mystery to which the artists of the previous age did not aspire. Delacroix said of this drawing that by itself it served to place its creator beside Coreggio.' (Ray). Cohen/de Ricci 133; Ray 75.
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