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[Debruge-Dumenil Collection] Catalogue des Object d'Art qui composent la 
collection Debruge-Dumenil don't la vente aux encheres publiques aura lieu 
a Paris... Paris; M. Bonnefons de Lavialle: 1849.

The extensive and magnificent sale of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th and 
18th century decorative and fine arts belonging to the wealthy Far-Eastern 
merchant, Louis Fidel Debruge-Dumenil. The Debruge-Dumenil collection gave 
rise to one of the great works of art history of the 19th century, as the 
collector's son-in-law, a lawyer names Jules Labarte, undertook to catalog 
it in the 1840s, a project that culminated in an 1847 catalog, and 
Labarte's abandonment of the law to be come a full-time archeologist/art 
historian. Labarte's work on an updated edition of the original catalog 
grew and grew until it turned into a "magnum opus" of six volumes on the 
arts and crafts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, published between 1864 
and 1866.

By that time the original Debruge-Dumenil Collection was long gone; in 
fact, it was dispersed at this auction sale in 1849. The sale took place in 
many sessions through January, February and March, and the decorative arts 
featured fine glass, metals and ceramics, including Venetian glass, stained 
glass, ancient glass, mosaics and enamels, Palissy ware, gold and 
silverwork, jewelry, clocks, furniture, ironwork, Oriental lacquer and 
other artwork, sculpture, bronzes, paintings and prints. This sale catalog 
features several line illustrations and vignettes in the text, as well as 4 
engraved plates which illustrate silhouettes of Venetian glasswares.

Hardcover. 6"x9", xxvi + 221 pages with several line illustrations, plus 4 
plates; bound in old marbled boards with a leather spine; covers worn and 
rubbed, hinges a little shaky; contents with some soil, etc. [07301] $250.00

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