Peter Fuhring

Fuhring, Peter: Francois-Joseph Belanger 1744-1818, Paris De Bayser S.A. 2006

This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Galerie de Bayser in Paris in 2003. Text in French. Essay by Peter Fuhring. Francois-Joseph Belanger was born in 1744 in Paris, where he became an important neoclassical designer. He left for England at 21, where he met William Chambers. The actress Sophie Arnould helped him meet important people in French society and around 1770 he bagan designing pieces for Marie Antoinette. In 1775 he started designing the fetes and theatrical pieces for French and English royalty. 32 works in this exhibition. All colorful aquarelle desings for ceiling and wall decorations in a Pompeian style. Chronology. 11" high X 8 1/2" wide, 61 pages.

[SW: Francois-Joseph Belanger, Peter Fuhring, Neoclassical Architecture]

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Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVIII Vredeman de Vries. Part II Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVIII Vredeman de Vries. Part II Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter, Hauswedell Verlag
ISBN: 3-7762-0424-9 Verlagsfrisch New Copy

Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVIII Vredeman de Vries. Part II Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter Verlag : Hauswedell, E ISBN : 3-7762-0424-9 Einband : Leinen Seiten/Umfang : 296 Seiten, 340 Abbildung(en), Beil.: 1 Doppelseite Tafeln - 27 × 20 cm Erschienen : 1997 Gewicht : 1107 g Preisinfo : 150,00 Eur[D]

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Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVII Vredeman de Vries. Part I Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVII Vredeman de Vries. Part I Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter, Hauswedell Verlag
ISBN: 3-7762-0423-0 Verlagsfrisch New Copy

Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts. ca. 1450-1700: Band XLVII Vredeman de Vries. Part I Herausgegeben von Luijten, Ger. Bearbeitet von Fuhring, Peter Verlag : Hauswedell, E ISBN : 3-7762-0423-0 Einband : Leinen Seiten/Umfang : 292 Seiten, 359 Abbildung(en) - 27 × 20 cm Erschienen : 1997 Gewicht : 1087 g Preisinfo : 150,00 Eur[D]

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MONTENAY, Georgette de. Exceedingly rare Emblemes ou Devises Chrestiennes. Lyon, Jean Marcorelle, 1571.
First edition of a beautiful original emblem-book. Although the privilege, in which the name of the artist is revealed, is dated 1566, to most researchers suggesting an earlier edition, Iwai convincingly proved that Woeriot applied for the privilege before starting to work on his plates and was granted five years in which to finish and publish his emblems. So Woeriot worked on his hundred emblem-plates in the period 1566-1571 and the 1571 edition is certainly the first. The book is dedicated, in seven pages of verse, to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarra, the full-length portrait of whom is found in the first emblem. Other laudatory verses by and to the authoress are present in the preliminaries and at the end, a.o. to and by Philippe de Castellas, to which the privilege was originally granted. The fine emblems by Pierre Woeiriot are very delicate pieces of work of highly original design, mainly centred on human figures, some also on plants, animals and inanimate objects. They all are signed by the artist's mark of the Lorraine cross, similar to that of Geoffroy Tory, many of whose cuts were at one time attributed to Woeiriot. Several reference works mention a portrait of the authoress, but it is generally agreed that when present it was inserted from another edition, Fairfax Murray suggesting, since the portrait is dated 1567, that it "may be all that is preserved of an earlier edition", and Mortimer's copy of the portrait coming from the later edition of 1584. But both agree that the original state of the present earliest known edition should be with a blank leaf for B4 and without a portrait. This is confirmed by Iwai's researches, who found that when a portrait was present in the first edition it invariably had the text from the 1584-edition on verso. The cancel to the emblem numbered 18 is observed only by Mortimer, where it originally was pasted over but later removed again. This cancel, in our copy present on an extra leaf directly following the original emblem, is of interest as it does not concern a misprint, but obviously a misinterpretation of De Montenay's intention. The original version under the motto: "Ilice primum trabem", and with verses to the theme: "see the mote in one's brother's eye but not see the beam in one's own", shows a very elegant scene of two blindfolded man groping and pointing towards each other against a background of wood. The cancel then shows an entirely new scene, elegant in quite another sort of way, with two luxuriously dressed men arguing, one man with a slight twig springing from his eye while a hand coming out of the clouds is holding an enormous beam before the face of the other man, while the background of foliage and rocks also is completely changed. The present emblem book not only is of interest for its fine and early copper-plates, but also for its poetry by Georgette de Montenay, one of the rare women poets of the 16th century. She was an ardent protestant, and the religious persecutions following the massacre of St. Bartholomew also hit her book, which was republished at Zürich in 1584, but made the present first edition exceedingly rare. We thank Peter Fuhring, Paris, for his kind information regarding the Iwai thesis.
Splendid copy, from the library of Victor, Duc de Massena, Prince d'Essling.
Mortimer, <I>French</I>, 380; Fairfax Murray 387; Baudrier X, pp. 381-82; Praz 431; Landwehr 529; Brun pp. 130, 267-268; <I>Bibl. Sylvain S. Brunschwig</I> II, 34; Hoe, <I>Emblems</I>, p. 89; Mizue Iwai, L<I>'Oeuvre de Pierre Woeriot (1532-1599), these</I>, Paris 1985, pp. 141-47, cat. XXXIV, nrs. 175-275; Paultre, <I>Les Images du Livre</I> pp. 98-102 (this copy); not in Rothschild. <I>NUC</I> lists four copies.

4to. Fullgrained orange morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides with the gilt armorial supralibros of Prince d'Essling in center, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CUZIN). With woodcut author's monogram device on title and 100 fine engraved large emblems by Pierre Woeiriot, with the captions incorporated in the emblems and 8-line verse printed underneath, the cancel to emblem 18 in first state before the numbering and printed text on extra leaf bound with, all verso blank. (7, 1 blank), 100, (=101), (8) lvs.

[SW: 16th Century;Engravings;Art General;Emblem Books;Reformation;Bindings;French]

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