LATOURRETTE, Louis.

[From upper wrapper]: Millet A Barbizon.

Frontis. & one illus. (both black & white). 16 pp. 8vo (205 x 136 mm.), orig. green semi-stiff printed wrappers, staple-bound. [From the final page]: Melun: A. Douhin, 1927.

The uncommon second edition of this account of Jean François Millet’s life by the poet and journalist Louis Latourrette. He focuses on the formative time the artist spent at Barbizon. The author writes in the introduction (in trans.): “If Barbizon gave to J.F. Millet the full awareness of his genius and the reason for his most magisterial inspiration, the great painter lavishly settled his debt by giving to Barbizon glory, a glory universal and immortal, such as his own.” The frontispiece reproduces a Millet self-portrait.

In nice condition, leaves slightly browned. Three related postcards laid-in, two of which depict Millet’s Barbizon studio.

Price: $250.00

Item ID: 6831