Fromentin Eugène Marsh Edward (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, light tanning, clipped corner, overall light shelf wear. Novel by French author and artist Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), first published in 1862, which serves as an analysis of sexual passion, chastity, love, and pain. 8.0" tall; 250 pages. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good copy. Slight signs of ageing but binding good and no markings. 186pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First English edition 8vo, published in good clipped jacket with minor wear and chipping to top edge, spine dulled ,signature to front, small marks, good dark blue boards, gilt to front and spine, sound binding, very good internal condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Wrapper lightly rubbed with a lightly darkened spine, boards clean. Clean throughout. Fine. Book.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo viii + 250pp., Autobiographical novel, first published in 1863. Nice copy in dark blue cloth boards with gilt decoration & titles.

Condition: Sehr gut. 14 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor foxing to edges, slight fraying to crown of dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition. Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer, now better remembered for his writings. He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. In 1849, he was awarded a medal of the second class. In 1852, he paid a second visit to Algeria, accompanying an archaeological mission, and then completed that minute study of the scenery of the country and of the habits of its people which enabled him to give to his after-work the realistic accuracy that comes from intimate knowledge. His books include Les Maîtres d'autrefois ("The Masters of Past Time", 1876), an influential appreciation of Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Baroque of the Old Masters of Belgium and Holland, Dominique and A Summer in the Sahara. In Les Maîtres d'autrefois he deals with the complexity of paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt and others, their style and the artists' emotions at the time of creating their masterpieces. He is also one of the first "art critics" to approach the subject of The Old Masters from a personal point of view - being a painter himself. He also puts the work in a social, political and economic context, as the Dutch Golden Age painting develops shortly after Holland won its independence. The book developed from articles for journals. Meyer Schapiro has written an essay on Fromentin, "Eugene Fromentin as Critic". Fromentin, who maintained that "art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible", was much influenced in style by Eugène Delacroix. His works are distinguished by striking composition, great dexterity of handling and brilliancy of colour. In them is given with great truth and refinement the unconscious grandeur of barbarian and animal attitudes and gestures. His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement. But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though with less profusion. Dominique, first published in the Revue des deux mondes in 1862, and dedicated to George Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. Fromentin's other literary works are Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pèlerinages (1856); Un été dans le Sahara (1857); Une année dans le Sahel (1858). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on August 27, 1876. (Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. vii + (1) + 249 + (3)pp. Publisher's plain blue cloth binding, gilt lettering with freeze above/below on front & spine. Green & white wallpaper style dw, red & black lettering, Publishers logo front bottom corner, not price clipped 9/6 net. Original white eps. Covers : book slight lean else bright. Dw : bright. Contents : very clean, tight & unfoxed. Tight attractive copy. F-/F.…