[Rarebooks] FS: 1823 French Book on Miniature Painting

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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 n 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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