Madou, Jean-Baptiste

Madou, Jean-Baptiste

MADOU, Jean-Baptiste Scènes de la vie des peintres de l'école flamande et hollandaise. Brussels Société des Beaux-Arts, A. De Wasme 1842 Lge folio (occ. marg. soiling, marg. tear to pl. 2 & 18 strengthened). Contemp. three-quarter red shagreen, covers of gilt ruled red cloth, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (rubbed, front cover discoloured, sm. repairs to front cover). Inside a nice copy. First issue of this impressive work with title (with 20 small medallion portraits) and 20 fine lithogr. on "chine appliqué" by Madou on the life of famous painters of the Flemish and Dutch schools i.a. Van Eyck, Memling, Quinten Matsys, Rubens, Rembrandt, Teniers, Steen, Van Dyck, Potter, Dow, etc. Each pl. is followed by an explanatory text written by the "elite" of the Belgian literary and scientific world of that time a.o. de Stassart, Lesbroussart, Polain, etc. Steel engr. head- and tailpieces. Ref. Van der Marck, p. 136. - Walch, Madou, n° 107-108.