Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers
Subtitle: études d'après nature
By: par Théophile Silvestre introduction et catalogues par M. L. de Virmond ; illustrée de 11 portraits pris au daguerréotype et gravés sur acier
Contributors: Virmond, Loudolphe de, 1828- writer of introduction; Masson, Alphonse Charles, 1814-1898, engraver
Published: 1857
Language: fre
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Portraits; Biography; Artists
Notes: Pages 1-328 called "première série"; pages 1-52 (2d section); of the second series only one fascicule,  Horace Vernet, was published.

The portraits are engraved by Alphone Masson.
Table of contents: title: I. Ingres; title: II. Eugéne Delacroix; title: III. Corot; title: IV. Chenavard; title: V. Decamps; title: VI. Barye; title: VII. Diaz; title: VIII. Courbet; title: IX. Préault; title: X. Rude; title: [XI.] Horace Vernet.