Vente considérable d'une belle collection de tableaux des plus grands maîtres italiens, flamands, hollandois & françois, tels que l'Albane, Rubens, Gérardow, Miéris, &c; d'un grand nombre de dessins choisis ... ; des bronzes, terre cuites, miniatures, yvoires, meubles de Boule, estampes, &c
Contributors: Dufresne, huissier-priseur, auctioneer; Prault, Laurent François, 1712-1780, printer
Publisher: Chez le sieur Basan, rue & hôtel Serpente et Me Dufresne, huissier-priseur, rue Princesse
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Le catalogue se distribue a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: European Painting; European Drawing; Early works to 1800; Catalogs; European Prints
Notes: "Cette vente commencera le lundi 23 février 1778 & jours suivant de relevée à l'hôtel d'Aligre."

Lugt identifies sellers as De Nogaret and others.

Printer statement from colophon.

Signatures: A-F⁸ G².

Headpiece.

Lugt, 2791.

Date of sale: Feb. 23, 1778, and following days.

Place of sale: Paris.

Library's copy annotated with prices in brown ink; running totals in pencil at head and foot of each page. On t.p. in brown ink, "no 24." On t.p. verso annotation on order of sale in brown ink; stamp of "Bibliothèque Heim, Paris." On p. 100 schedule of sale struck through in brown ink. On verso of front free endpaper, in brown ink: 1983 A-G.  Manuscript note (1 p.) in brown ink inserted after t.p. The note describes two purchases by [François-Pascal] Haudry (whose catalog is bound in this volume) at the sale of M. Chariot held in Paris Jan. 28, 1788 (Lugt 4250). According to the note, Haudry bought lot 37, two paintings by Patel le pere (Pierre Patel I) for 1200 livres tournois; this lot corresponds to painting lots 71 and 72 of Haudry's catalog. According to the note, Haudry also bought a drawing by Pietro Testa, lot 86 (lot 119 of drawings in Haudry's catalog), for 338 livres tournois. Binding: cat's-paw calf; gilt rules on boards; gilt decorated spine; edges sprinkled red; former library label on top board. Gilt spine title on green labels.

Library's copy bound with: Catalogue des tableaux du cabinet de M. Crozat, baron de Thiers. Paris : De Bure, 1755 (ID: 2671-425 c.2) -- Belle collection de tableaux originaux des plus grandes maîtres des différentes ecoles. Orléans : Rouzeau-Montaut, [1800?] (ID: 2932-003)