[Rarebooks] FS: Miniature French Portraits in the new Bookin'!

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Mansion. [Andre] L[eon Larue]. "Lettres sur la Miniature, par Mansion,
eleve d'Isabey"
 Paris; Chez Louis Janet, Libraire: 1823.

Originally published in London by Ackermann in the same year. The folding
frontispiece is an attractive, hand-tinted palette of 12 colors for flesh
tones and shadows. André Léon Larue [1785-1870], known as "Mansion", was a
French painter of portrait miniatures and later a noted colorist of early
photographic portraits. The Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography
notes- "Mansion was the son of Jacques Larue, a portrait painter. Critics
were very impressed with Mansion's skill, and in The Art Union, 1845, June
1st, it was written that- 'no human had ever obtained such brilliant
effects.' Mansion had his own technique of colouring plates, using a
palette made up of fifteen colours which he had learned as a miniaturist."
In addition to this book on painting miniatures he wrote an instructional
book for photographic colorists. Uncommon.

Softcover. 4.5"x7", 244 pages, folding hand-colored frontispiece.

Publisher's original printed paper covers, covers with some slight
chipping, a little toning and spotting throughout, page tips and fore-edge
a bit browned, spine paper chipped and cracked. Still, an attractive copy
in the publisher's original paper covers. [38369] $275

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