leather_bound
1891 · Paris
by Album Boileau
Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort, Francoise Flameng, Jean-Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert et al. Leon Bonnat won a medal of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the (truncated)