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(ILLUSTRATION ART) Schmied, François Louis Original gouache from Les Aventures du Dernier

(ILLUSTRATION ART.) Schmied, François Louis. Original gouache from Les Aventures du Dernier. 200x115mm; 7 7/8x4 1/2 inches, image; framed. Image depicts a fortress with a colorful landscape of trees in the foreground. Recto shows an additional design for a text plate featuring the illuminated initial "C," in blue, coral, and gold. Both signed in pencil, lower right. [Paris, 1930]

These are Schmied's original designs for one of his most important endeavours, the illustration and layout of René de Chateaubriand's novel "Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage." Both images are signed in pencil by Schmied.

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