Catalogue des Tableaux, Dessins, Marbres, Bronzes, et Porcelaines du Cabinet de feu M. Prault Ainé…Dont la Vente se fera les 13 et 14 Février 1807, en sa Maison…
8 pp. 8vo, 19th-cent. marbled boards (joints restored), spine gilt. Paris: Poultier & Constantin, 1807.
The rare sale catalogue, fully priced in a contemporary hand, of Louis François Prault (1734-1806), ancien Imprimeur du Roi and son of the great publisher and bookseller Laurent François (1712-80). Prault’s firm printed many auction catalogues in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of the Constantins relationship with the Prault family, who printed almost all of their sale catalogues, either Guillaume Jean Constantin or his son, Amédée, was the expert for this sale.
The present catalogue describes Prault’s choice collection of paintings (by Greuze, Lancret, Teniers, Wijnants, van Goyen, etc.), drawings (by Titian, Caravaggio, Panini, Le Sueur, Cochin, etc.), as well as sculpture and ceramics. There is a total of 63 lots, all priced.
Very good and uncut copy. Engraved bookplate of Georges Pannier (1853-1944), the Parisian art dealer, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title-page.
❧ Lugt 7183.
Price: $1,500.00
Item ID: 6524
