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PETITOT, JEAN. Les Émaux de Petitot du Musée Impérial du Louvre. 5 vols. 1862-64. Extra-illustrated.
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED (PETITOT, JEAN.) Les Émaux de Petitot du Musée Impérial du Louvre. Portraits de Personnages Historiques et de Femmes Célèbres du Siècles de Louis XIV. 50 plates after portrait enamels by Petitot. Half-titles. 2 volumes extended to 5. 4to, red levant lavishly gilt with navy morocco doublures stamp-signed Chambolle-Duru, short crack at bottom of Volume 1 front joint; plates variously foxed. Paris, 1862-64
- Notes: first edition in book form. large-paper set, extra-illustrated with over 400 additional states of the plates. The French-Swiss painter Petitot (1607-91) was best-known for his miniature enamel portraits of Louis XIV and his courtiers. Vicaire III, 571.
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