(AUCTION CATALOGUE: PERCIER, Charles).

Notice de Dessins, Modèles d’Orfévrerie religieuse, militaire, mobilière, ordres et armoiries, françaises et étrangères, exécutés par C. Percier…[24 décembre 1859].

10 pp. Small 8vo, orig. printed wrappers (wrappers detached), partially stitched. Paris: F. Schayé, Me. Boulouze & Vignères, 1859.

82 lots. Pencil annotations throughout in a contemporary hand with nearly all prices and buyers’ names. Possibly F. A. Rapilly’s copy. Rapilly purchased a majority of the lots in this sale.

Good copy, with valuable provenance information; largely disbound. From the library of Jacques Fryszman (1909-98), the great historian of art and collector of drawings, who wrote the Lugt number in the top right corner of the wrappers (or first leaf of text) on nearly all of his catalogues. See Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes (online) 4946.

❧ Lugt 25182.

Price: $350.00

Item ID: 7308