Lemercier Lithographers (5 results)

Condition: Good. An album of 12 chromolithographs. 33.5 x 26 cm. Most in 2 states. Genre scenes by Vallet and rural achitecture by d'Orschwiller.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:82881491 for another work by Vallet. Original publisher's cloth boards.Ex-libris au nom de Jules HENISSART, avec un blason accompagné d'une devise : « Le droict chemin ».…

Condition: Good. Folio. 35 x 53.25cm. sheet size with pages attached to hinges for an effective width of 38cm. 6 plate volumes uniformly bound in full green morocco with elaborate gilt border designs; gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. .VERY HEAVY VOLUMES.10 plate albums bound in 5, plus the plate atlas album. With 508 lithographed plates (400 in the albums, frontispiece portrait & 107 in the atlas), many printed in color or hand-colored, others black & white or sepia; color lithographed title pages for the atlas and the albums, except for the title page of the tenth part, which is not present and perhaps never published. Plain paper interleaves to the plates. Some of the plates are chromolithographs but most of the colored plates are richly handcolored and gommés. Sixty artists worked on the lithographs.References: Brunet II, 920."ouvrage splendide et d'un grand intérêt"; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1110334971.Dunbarton Oaks:Like his family before him, Alexandre Du Sommerard (1779-1842) had a career in public service, first in the military, then in the civil service, then in the court itself. Passion for his native country of France was even more manifest in his art collecting and studies, which is where he directed most of his energies.The first items he acquired were paintings by contemporary French painters, but, after 1825, he devoted himself to art from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, with particular attention to arts with French connections. In his actions and his collector's tastes, Sommerard was likely influenced by Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839), who rescued medieval treasures and monuments from destruction during the French Revolution and who later set up the Musée des Monuments Français.By 1832, Sommerard had accumulated such a large collection that he purchased the late fifteenth-century Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny to house it. In each room of the building, he arranged furniture, objects, and textiles according to their function or symbolic value in an attempt to replicate the interior spaces of the past.In 1838, Alexandre Du Sommerard published the first volumes of a multivolume work, Les Arts du moyen-âge, which he intended as a history of French medieval art. His collection and study included early Christian and Byzantine art as the precursors to western medieval art. He felt that history should not rely solely on written sources and that historians and the public needed to comprehend the history of art as well.The illustrated atlas and album were issued serially, 10 installments in all and each with a beautiful, unique title page. Inside each installment were large illustrations of medieval buildings and objects. In the Avertissement, Sommerard brags that the publication used lithography, the most advanced technique in book illustration available at the time, in order to create accurate reproductions. At this point, chromolithography was still in development, and most lithographic illustrations were black-and-white, so it seems likely that the rich colors in Sommerard's publication were added manually.Upon his death in 1842, his collection and the building were bequeathed to the state. In 1844, Lenoir's son, Alexandre-Albert Lenoir (1801-1891), oversaw the movement of his father's collection to Roman baths that are immediately adjacent to the Hôtel de Cluny. The combined collections became the Musée de Cluny (now the Musée National du Moyen Âge). Edmond du Sommerard (d. 1855) was appointed the museum's first curator and was responsible for the acquisition of the museum's famous lady-and-unicorn tapestries. Since then, some items have been deaccessioned and moved to other museums, but the existing museum still reflects the ideas and tastes of Sommerard and Lenoir.Alexandre Du Sommerard a mobilisé près de soixante artistes pour créer les cinq cents planches d'illustrations lithographiques des Arts au Moyen Âge.Dès ses débuts, Alexandre a montré un intérêt marqué pour cette technique, l'ayant déj.…

Condition: Good. Folio. 23 x 35cm. Original publisher's gilt cloth. 24 lithographs printed in colors. Some plates with marginal foxing. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:60194219.Lithographed by Schultz and Grenier after Fu?chslin, and printed by Lemercier (Paris). Mit 24 weiblichen Trachtendarstellungen im Oval. Altkolor. Lithographien von Schultz nach Fuchslin, gedruckt bei Lemercier, Paris. Genf, Charnaux, um 1860. Gr.-4°. Original-Leinwand mit goldgepr. Verlagsangabe auf VDeckel. Colas 1136bis - Lipperheide Ga 49. - Etwas stockfleckig, zumeist in den Rändern.…

Condition: Good. Folio. Original gilt and blindstamped percaline. 30 x 43cm. The plates on rag paper with tissue guards, fresh. Text pages and endpapers, browned. OCLC Number:759781928 & OCLC Number: 466288140.This work describes the Maison Imperiale de Saint Louis and the Military Imperial School of the little town Saint Cyr, close to Versailles. The full-page plates illustrate not only views, places and plants, but also military costumes with the school's parkland. Of the 12 pates, 7 are handcolored as called for. Plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. Vue Generale de L'Ecole Imperiale Militaire. 3. Plan de la Maison de Saint Louis a St. Cyr. 4. Plan de L'Ecole Imperiale Speciale Militaire de St. Cyr. 5. Les Dames de St. Louis. (handcolored). 6. La Chapelle, Tombeau de Mme De Maintenon. 7. Ecoles Militaires. (handcolored). 8. La Promenade Dans Le Parc - Eleves d'Infanterie. (handcolored). 9. Une Revue au Champs-de-Mars. Eleèves de Cavalerie (handcolored). 10. La Cour de Wagram. (handcolored). 11. En Congé. (handcolored). 12. Le Départ. (handcolored). In-folio, percaline noire, titre doré sur le premier plat, avec monogramme L.E. (reliure de l'époque). Album contenant 12 planches lithographiées dont 7 finement coloriées. Bon exemplaire. Rousseurs uniquement sur les pages de texte.Expertise by M. Christian GASCH,Boite Postale 405,F-58004 NEVERS Cedex.…

Condition: Good. Bound portfolio of prints without text in oblong formats. 24 x 30cm. average. Many are of the art works exhib ted at the annual Salons. Most are lithographs by Jean-Georges FREY (1798-185?) and fewer by his partner Jean-François BENARD (1796-185?).