[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 Guide for Painting Collectors -White/de Burtin

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"Treatise on the Knowledge Necessary to Amateurs in Pictures. Translated
and Abridged from the French of M. Francois-Xavier de Burtin"

By Robert White.
Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans: 1845.

DISCUSSION: The original edition, published in Brussels in 1808, contained
an extensive and detailed catalog of the personal picture collection of M.
Burtin, which White judged to have not been of sufficient interest to his
English readers to warrant the expense of including here. White has also
updated some material to reflect current scholarship, and has added
information concerning prices realised at auction for pictures in major
collections in France over the prior hundred years.

The main text remains as close to the author’s original as White was able
to come, and begins with a lengthy discussion of what makes a good picture
before moving on to how to judge pictures, how to judge a picture’s state
of preservation, how to recognize copies, how to analyze and describe a
picture, a description of the principal schools of painting,
classification of pictures by subject, why 16th and 17th century pictures
are superior to 18th century works, the differing manners of the Masters,
signatures, DePile’s ‘Balance of Painters’, cleaning pictures, varnishes,
remarks on public galleries in Europe, and how to form a private
collection.

DESCRIPTION:
Hardcover. 6”x9”, x + 338 pages, 4 lithographed plates, 1 tinted. Bound in
old quarter leather and marbled boards.

CONDITION NOTES:
Covers somewhat worn, tips rubbed, gilt rubbing off raised bands, etc.
Front hinge leather cracked and hinge a bit loose. Some internal foxing
and discoloration, including to the plates.

PRICE: $175~

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