Emile Michel — Les Maitres Du Paysage

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1906. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this impressive French volume on the masters of landscapes, complete with many plates and illustrations. The first edition.In the original French.A beautiful study of the masters of landscape paintings, such as Velasquez, Turner, Delacroix, Rubens, Courbet, Canaletto, and more, with reproductions of their works throughout.Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-nine plates, and full-paged and in-text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. By Francois Emile Michel, a French painter and art historian, who is best known for his biographical work on Rembrandt. In the original publisher's morocco binding. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the extremities and joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots. Near Fine . Ill.: Emile Michel. Near Fine .