Recueil de divers ouvrages sur la Peinture et le Coloris (par M.de Piles, de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture)

"12. Paris, chez Ant. Jombert, 1755, 16,5 x 9,2 cm, xii pp + 452 pp + (4)nn pp (privilige). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges painted red, marbled endpapers, Fine crisp copy in a well preserved contemporary binding, with an old ex-libris name-stamp on the first fly leaf ; '' Girard de la Vesvre ''. Text in French. First edition of this compilation of several texts by de Piles on painting and colour. A large part of the book is devoted to Rubens ; the author compares the works of Rubens with those of other painters and describes at length many of Rubens' paintings. It contains also a biography of Rubens which is based on a text by Philip Rubens ( see Prosper Arents pp. 161). For a detailed study on Roger de Piles, the Academy, and the debates on color vs. drawing see B.Teyssèdre; Roger de Piles et les débats sur le coloris au siècle de Louis XIV, Paris 1965, with an exhaustive bibliography of sources and later publications. (see Arntzen & Rainwater H 114.)."