[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849) - photo 1
[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849) - photo 2
[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849) - photo 3
[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849) - photo 4
[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849) - photo 5

[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849)

Lot 102
21.11.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 102 | [BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849)
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€ 20 000 – 30 000
[BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)] Jean-Gabriel PRÊTRE (1768-1849)
‌Recueil de 96 aquarelles originales signées pour les Œuvres complètes de Buffon, dans l'édition Rapet 1819-1822. : poissons, reptiles et mammifères.
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Beau recueil de près de cent aquarelles originales pour les Oeuvres de Buffon. Né à Genève, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre exerca son art principalement à Paris. Peintre de la ménagerie de l'impératrice Joséphine, puis au Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, il contribue notamment à la monumentale Description de l'Egypte.
‌L‌a composition de ses aquarelles originales‌ est très proche des versions publiées : dans un encadrement à l'encre, avec en partie supérieure, le tome, le numéro de la planche dans ce tome et la page où doit se trouver la planche ; et en partie inférieure, la signature de l'artiste et la légende de la planche.

‌‌In-4 (233 x 197 mm). 96 aquarelles originales signées de Prêtre, la majorité à ce format, d'autres plus petites (220 x 175 mm). Demi-veau brun à coins de l'époque, dos à nerfs, gardes de papier marbré.
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‌ A very attractive album of 96 original waterolours, signed by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre. They were painted for the 1819-1822 edition of Buffon's Oeuvres complètes, issued in Paris by Rapet. Most of them depict fishes, and some reptiles and mammals.

Place of origin:France
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