Cadres et Bordures

Author: Deshairs, Leon

Publisher: A. Calavas

Published: Paris

Publishing year: 1910

(Deshairs, Leon). Picture frames. "Cadres et Bordures de Tableaux de la Fin du XVIe Siècle au Premier Empire. 62 Planches (cent quatre-vingt-cinq motifs) précédés d'une Notice historique". Paris: Libraire des Arts décoratifs, A. Calavas, (1910). Large folio (53:37 cm). (5) ll., 62 photogravure plates with 185 photographs. Loose as issued in cloth-backed boards with tie-strings.

A photographic documentation of picture frames, mostly French, from late 16th to early 19th century, in the Louvre, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, museums of Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Dijon, and in private collections: Tuffier, Decorcelle, Dormeuil, Jacques Doucet, etc., with an historical introduction. - Boards somewhat dirty, cloth on the spine at the top and at the bottom a little flawy. Inside well preserved. - Léon Deshairs, born February 14, 1874 in Chalon-sur-Saône, died May 20, 1967 in Créteil, was a French art historian, writer and designer.

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