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  • Property from the Collection of Jayne Wrightsman
Lot 140

Ladies' Art Reference Library

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Current Bid
$350

Bid Increments

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$200 $50
$500 $100
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Comprising 108 volumes:

Anderson, Jaynie: Giorgione: Peintre de la "Brièveté Poétique", 1996, in French

Ashmole, Bernard: The Wrightsman Lectures VI: Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece, 1972

Babelon, Jean-Pierre: Le Palais de l'Institut, 2005, in French

Bailey, Colin B.; Conisbee, Philip; Gaehtgens, Thomas W.: The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, 2003

Basile, Giuseppe: Giotto: The Arena Chapel Frescoes, 1993

Baudouin, Frans: Pietro Paulo Rubens, 1977, translated by Elsie Callander

Beddington, Charles: Canaletto in England, 2006

Berenson, Bernard: The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Vol. I-III, 1938

Bergdoll, Barry: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia, 1994, photographs by Erich Lessing

Bertière Simone: Fontainebleau, 2006, in French

Białostocki, Jan: The Wrightsman Lectures VIII: Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe, 1976

Blake, William: The Gates of Paradise, Vol. I-III, 1689, limited edition numbered 628 of 700

Blankert, Albert; Montias, John Michael; and Aillaud, Gilles: Vermeer, 1988

Bony, Jean: French Gothic Architecture of the 12th & 13th Centuries, 1983

Bony, Jean: The Wrightsman Lectures X: The English Decorated Style, 1978

Briganti, Giuliano; Chastel, André; and Zapperi, Roberto: Gli Amori Degli Dei: Nuove Indagini sulla Galleria Farnese, 1987, in Italian

Burchard, Wolf: The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, 2016, signed by the author and dated Nov 24, 2016

Buttery, David: Canaletto and Warwick Castle, 1992, signed by the author with an inscription dated 1992

Buttlar, Adrian von: Leo von Klenze, 1999, in German

Calvesi, Maurizio: Treasures of the Vatican, 1962, translated by James Emmons

Caturla, María Luisa: Francisco de Zurbarán, 1994, in French

Cimorelli, Dario (ed.): Giovanni Bellini, 2008, in Italian

Clark, Kenneth: The Wrightsman Lectures: Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance, 1966, signed by the author with an inscription

Clark, Kenneth: The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. I-III, 1968

Clark, Kenneth: The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy, 1976

Coats, Alice M.: The Book of Flowers, 1973

Cooper, Douglas (ed.): Great Family Collections, 1965

Cox-Rearick, Janet: The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasures, 1996

Dacier, Émile: Les Catalogues Illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Vol. I-XI, 0, in French

D'Ancona, Paolo: The Farnesia Frescoes at Rome, 1955

D'Arcais, Francesca Flores: Giotto, 1995, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Davies, David and Elliot, John H.: El Greco, 2003

Demus, Otto: The Wrightsman Lectures III: Byzantine Art and The West, 1970

Dunkerton, Jill; Foister, Susan; and Penny, Nicholas: Dürer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in The National Gallery, 1999

Ferrari, Enrique Lafuente: Goya: His Complete Etchings, Aquatints, and Lithographs, 1962, translated by Raymond Rudorff

Fontaine, Jean de la; and Fragonard, Jean-Honoré: Contes et nouvelles en vers, 1994, in French

Fouquet, Jean: The Hours of Etienne Chevalier, 1971, translated by Marianne Sinclair

Fumaroli, Marc: Peinture et Pouvoirs, 2007, in French

Galloway, Peter: The Order of the British Empire, 1996

Gemin, Massimo and Pedrocco, Filippo: Giambattista Tiepolo, 1995, in French

Gombrich, E. H.: The Wrightsman Lectures IX: The Sense of Order, 1979

Greece, Prince Michael of: Imperial Palaces of Russia, 1992, photographs by Francesco Venturi, translated by Catherine O'Keeffe

Haak, Bob: The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, 1984

Hall, Michael: Waddesdon: The Biography of a Rothschild House, 2012, forward by Lord Rothschild

Hall, Michael: Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House, 2002, first edition, forward by Lord Rothschild

Hamel, Christopher de: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, 2016

Haskell, Francis: The Wrightsman Lectures VII: Rediscoveries in Art, 1976

Haupt, Herbert; Vignau-Wilberg, Thea; and Irblich, Eva: Le Bestiaire de Rodolphe II, 1990, in French

Hood, William: Fra Angelico at San Marco, 1993

Husband Timothy B.: The Art of Illumination, 2008

Krautheimer, Richard: Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, 1965, signed by the author and together with a letter from the author dated Nov 23, 1965

Lack, H. Walter: A Garden for Eternity, 2000, translated by Martin Walters

Lemus, Vera: Pushkin: Palaces and Parks, 1984, translated by Boris Grudinko

Levey, Michael: The National Gallery Collection, 1987

Levey, Michael: The Wrightsman Lectures V: Painting at Court, 1971

Licht Fred: Goya, 2001, in French

Liedtke, Walter: Vermeer and the Delft School, 2001, with Michael C. Plomp and Axel Rüger

Lightbown, Ronald: Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work, 1989

Links, J.G.: Canaletto, 1994

Longhi, Roberto: Il Correggio nella camera de San Paolo, 1973, in Italian

López-Rey, José: Velázquez: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, 1996, in English, French, and German, translated by Brigitte Wölk

López-Rey, José: Velázquez: Le Peintre des Peintres, Vol. I, 1996, in French

Luna, Juan J.: Goya: 250 Aniversario, 1996, in Spanish

Mabille, Gérard (et al.): Views of the Gardens at Marley, 1998

Meiss, Millard and Beatson, Elizabeth H.: The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, 1974

Meiss, Millard and Kirsch, Edith W.: The Visconti Hours, 1972

Meiss, Millard and Thomas, Marcel: The Rohan Master: A Book of Hours, 1973, translated by Katharine W. Carson

Mérot Alain: Poussin, 1990, in French

Michel, Albin: L'Art Flamand, 1985, in French

Montenay, Florence Austin: Saint-Cloud: une vie de château, 2005, in French

Multiple Authors: From Van Eyck to Bruegel, 1998, edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen

Multiple Authors: Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770, 1996, edited by Kieth Christiansena and signed by the editor with an inscription

Multiple Authors: Goya: Images of Women, 2002, edited by Janis A. Tomlinson

Multiple Authors: Virtue and Beauty, 2001, edited and with an introduction by David Alan Brown

Multiple Authors: Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, 2001, edited by Edgar Peters Bowron

Multiple Authors: Paintings of The Prado, 1994, translated by Caroline Clancy and Dominic Currin

Multiple Authors: The Medici, Michaelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, 2002

Multiple Authors: The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655, 2002, edited by Jonathan Brown and John Elliot

Multiple Authors: Westminster Abbey, 1972

Multiple Authors: Mazarin: Les Lettres et les Arts, 2006, with an introduction by Christian Péligry, in French

Multiple Authors: Grand Siècle, 1993, in French

Multiple Authors: Rome: Villa Borghèse, 2003, in French

Osborne, June: Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City, 2003, photographs by Joe Cornish

Panofsky, Erwin: The Wrightsman Lectures II: Problems in Titian: Mostly Iconographic, 1969

Parker, K. T.: The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle, 1945

Pedrocco, Filippo: Titian, 2000, translated by Corrado Federici

Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie: Fontainebleau, 1998, photographs by Georges Fessy, translated by Judith Hayward

Pichon, Yann le: Le Musée Retrouvé de Denis Diderot, 1993, in French

Pope-Hennessy, John: Cellini, 1985, signed by the author with an inscription

Pope-Hennessy, John: Donatello, 1993, signed by the author with an inscription

Pope-Hennessy, John: The Wrightsman Lectures IV: Raphael, 1970

Pope-Hennessy, John: Titien, 2004, in French

Redouté, Pierre-Joseph (il.): Nicolas Robert et Les Vélins du Muséum National d;Histoire Naturelle, 1980, in French

Reginato, James: Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, 2016, photography by Jonathan Becker

Ricci, Franco Maria: Rome: Palais Farnese, 2001, in French

Rubin, Patricia Lee; and Wright, Alison: Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, 1999

Saint Non, di Jean-Claude Richard de; and Fragonard, Honoré: Panopticon Italiano, 1986, in Italian

Saint Simon, F. de: La Place Vendôme, 1982, in French

Seipel, Wilfried: The Picture Gallery, 1996, translated by Gitta Holroyd-Reece

Shvidkovsky, Dmitri: St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars, 1996, first edition

Stourton, James: Great Collectors of Our Time, 2007

Toman, Rolf: Renaissance Italienne, 1995, in French

Toulier, Christine: Richelieu: The Château and the Ideal City, 2005, in English and French

Varese, Ranieri: Atlante di Schifanoia, 1989, in Italian

Vecchi, Pierluigi de: Raphaël, 2002, in French

Waagen: Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. I-III, 1854

Watkin, David and Mellinghoff, Tilman: German Architecture and the Classical Ideal 1740-1840, 1987

White, John: Duccio: Tuscan Art and the Medieval Workshop, 1979

(108).

Condition

Individual condition report not available for this lot. Each with a bookplate inscribed "Ex Librus Jayne Wrightsman" on the inside cover or first flyleaf.

All items are in good condition, many like new.

Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.

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