GAUTIER, H.

L'arte di acquellare. Opera del signor H*** Gautier di Nismes, tradotta dal francese con annotazioni e supplementi ...

Lucca, presso Giuseppe Rocchi, 1760. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 243, [1], with 1 folding engraved plate; occasionally some faint browning and marginal staining but a large, uncut copy in recent half vellum. First Italian translation of Gautier's handbook which 'was intended to give the public useful instructions on the art of colouring drawings with water colours. ... Pigments and pigment containers, use of media, suitable brushes, and how to copy a drawing are among the subjects discussed in this very practical treatise' (A. Massing). The work was originally published in Lyon in 1687; the anonymous Italian translator used the second edition of Brussels 1708.UCBA I, p. 643; A. Massing, Painting materials and techniques: towards a bibliography of the French Literature before 1800, (in: Festschrift Rolf E. Straub), Worms 1990, no. 72.

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