L'art de peindre
Subtitle: poëme : avec des réflexions sur les différentes parties de la peinture
By: par M. Watelet ...
Contributors: Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Marie, 1714-1789; Guérin, Hyppolyte-Louis, 1698-1765; Delatour, Louis-François, 1727-1807
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour ...
Published: 1760
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 144
Notes: Signatures: a-bp4s cp2s A-Sp4s.

Engraved frontispiece; title vignette; head- and tail-pieces, all engraved.

All engravings by the author after designs by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.

Cohen-de Ricci, col. 1051

Sander, M.  Die illustrierten französischen Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts, 2040

Library's copy 2 lacks plates I and II, bound in after p. 76.

Library's copy 1 bound in red morocco; gilt rules on boards; gilt spine; all edges gilt; bookplates of Theodore Besterman, Charles Miguet and Eugène Paillet on front pastedown.

Library's copy 2 bound in modern marbled paper-covered boards; leather spine with gilt label; original wastepaper wrappers bound in; bookplate of Charles Frederic on front wastepaper wrappers.