Catalogue de Tableaux, Dessins…Statues en bronze; platres et cire; Vases et Coupes en albatre et...
2 p.l., viii, 16 pp. 8vo (203 x 133 mm.), attractive antique marbled boards. Paris: Denailly & Regnault De Lalande, 1810.
An uncommon sale catalogue that describes the collection of Moitte (1746-1810), a noted sculptor who won the 1768 Prix de Rome. Agréé by the Académie Royale in 1783, Moitte regularly exhibited at the Salons. His lone royal commission was for a statue of Gian Domenico Cassini, which is at the Observatoire de Paris. “Though still not very well known, he was one of France’s most committed and talented exponents of Neo-classical sculpture”–Oxford Art Online.
The present catalogue begins with... More