(LOUVRE).

Musée Napoléon. Notice des Tableaux des Ecoles Française et Flamande, Exposés dans la grande Galerie, Dont l’ouverture a eu lieu le 18 Germinal an VII [7 April 1799]; et des Tableaux des Ecoles de Lombardie et de Bologne, Dont l’Exposition a eu lieu le 25 Messidor an IX [14 July 1801].

1 p.l., ii, 224 pp. 12mo (162 x 104 mm.), cont. calf-backed paste-paper boards (head of spine worn), red morocco label on spine. [Paris: L’Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts, 1804/5].

A rare and often misdated issue of this exhibition guide. Marquet de Vasselot shows that this issue incorporates the Supplement of 1804 (no. 123), making it impossible for this to have been printed in 1801, as some cataloguers have concluded. The present catalogue describes 1243 works in total, which were shown during two momentous exhibitions at the Louvre in 1799 and in 1801.

Very good copy; a few gatherings lightly browned.

❧ Marquet de Vasselot, Répertoire des catalogues du Musée du Louvre (1793-1926) (1927), 125.

Price: $350.00

Item ID: 6961