[Rarebooks] FS: 1823 Portrait Miniature Painting Guide

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“Lettres sur la Miniature, par Mansion, eleve d'Isabey”

By "Mansion" (Andre Leon Larue). Published in Paris by Chez Louis Janet, 
Libraire, in 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.   An uncommon title.

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, text block 
split apart at pages 156/57 (see photo, below). Still, an attractive 
copy in the publisher's original paper covers.  $250

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