Idées italiennes sur quelques tableaux célèbres
By: par A. Constantin
Contributors: Stendhal, 1783-1842
Publisher: Au Cabinet scientifique-littéraire de J.P. Vieusseux
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Florence
Language: ita
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Appreciation; Guidebooks; Painting; Italian Painting
Notes: "Stendhal a pris une part importante à l'élaboration et à la rédaction de cet ouvrage"--BN. A 2nd ed. incorporating annotations by Stendhal to a copy of the present ed. was published in 1931 (Paris : Le Divan).

Etched frontispiece after a drawing by Constantin depicts the "Maison de la Fornarina." See A. Constantin, peintre sur émail / D. Plan (Editions de Genève, 1930), p. 140.

BN Stendhal 180

Binding: gray marbled paper. Corners and head and foot of spine reinforced with vellum. Green paper label at head of spine on which have been written title ("Tableau") and author.

Centered on front pastedown is bookplate of Giannalisa Feltrinelli, with her blind stamp at lower corner of front free endpaper. At upper right corner of half title is author's dedicatory inscription in brown ink to "Monsieur Ruegger." A MS entry in ink has been added to the table of contents on p. 352 ("Le portrait de Raphaël / page 64"). In a pencilled note on the front free endpaper recto it is suggested that the hand is Stendhal's, but it seems closer to the author's; cf. facsims. following pp. 168 and 170 in D. Plan. A few more pencilled additions to the contents on p. 353, occasional lining in pencil.