Item ID: 7095 Notice de Tableaux de Peintres italiens et autres; Gouaches, Dessins, Estampes, Recueils, Planches gravées, Ustensiles de peinture, etc., Provenant de…Par F. L. Regnault Delalande. Cette vente…se fera…le Jeudi 12 et le Vendredi 13 Août…. Alexandre Guillaume AUCTION CATALOGUE: BLANKENSTEIN.

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Notice de Tableaux de Peintres italiens et autres; Gouaches, Dessins, Estampes, Recueils, Planches gravées, Ustensiles de peinture, etc., Provenant de…Par F. L. Regnault Delalande. Cette vente…se fera…le Jeudi 12 et le Vendredi 13 Août…

8 pp. 8vo (199 x 125 mm.), modern aubergine cloth, title on upper cover. Paris: Bezançon & Regnault-Delalande, 1813.

A scarce auction catalogue offering the contents of a bankrupt dealership, owned by “Blankenstein.” A chapter in a 1994 text on Franco-German relations during the French Revolution (cited below) mentions an Alexandre Guillaume Blankenstein, a converted Jew from Frankfurt, originally named Aron Levi Wetzlar, who opened a luxurious bookstore on the quai Malaquais around 1810, which then went under three years later. We know of two suites of prints published by Blankenstein. The title-page of this catalogue mentions that a judge has ordered this bankruptcy sale.

44 lots of paintings, drawings, prints, and engraved plates. Lot 35 consists of the 149 (of 179) original engraved plates used to print the famous suite known as the Cabinet Crozat (the Mariette edition of 1729-42).

In fine condition. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim, along with the library’s stamp on verso of title.

❧ Lugt 8432. J. Mondot & A. Ruiz, eds., Interférences Franco-allemandes et Révolution de France (1994), p. 84.

Price: $950.00

Item ID: 7095