[HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)] - photo 1
[HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)] - photo 2
[HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)] - photo 3

[HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)]

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21.03.2024 13:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 235 | [HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)]
[HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)] ; [LÜTZELBURGER, Hans ( ? - 1526)] ; [CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568)] ; [VAUZELLES, Jean de ( ? - v. 1563)]
Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamme[n]t pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. Lyon : Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel, 1538.
Première édition de la célèbre Danse des morts de Holbein sous la forme d'un ouvrage.

Les 41 bois gravés qui ornent le volume avaient été tirés à Bâle dès 1530, mais n'avaient jamais été réunis en recueil. Le collaborateur bâlois de Holbein, Hans Lützelburger, exécute ici les gravures d'après les dessins de son maître (voir son monogramme "HL" au f. 28). La première réunion en série de ces images à la fois glaçantes et teintées d'humour confère toute son importance à ce qui allait devenir l'un des livres illustrés les plus célèbres de la Renaissance.
L'exemplaire provient de la célèbre bibliothèque de l'entrepreneur, philanthrope et bibliophile Charles WIlliam Dyson Perrins.

USTC 6236 ; Brunet, III, p.254 ; Kammerer Elsa, Jean de Vauzelles et le creuset lyonnais : Un humaniste catholique au service de Marguerite de Navarre entre France, Italie et Allemagne (1520–1550), Genève, Droz, 2013, p.188-191.

Petit in-4 (176 x 121 mm). Première édition. 52 ff. 41 xylographies originales. Quatrains et épître en français attribués à Jean de Vauzelles ou Gilles Corrozet. Reliure signée Trautz-Bauzonnet : maroquin brun, grand fleuron central sur les plats, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés, contreplats et gardes de papier marbré, roulette dorée intérieure, filets sur les coupes, tranches dorées (petites taches d’encre en marge inférieure des ff. 4 v. et 5 r., reliure frottée, un accroc sur le premier plat).
Provenance : Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864-1958) – Sam Josefowitz, Pully – puis par descendance aux propriétaires actuels.

The famous Danse Macabre by Holbein the Younger in its very first edition as a book, illustrated with 41 original wood engravings. One of the most renowned illustrated books of the Renaissance. The Dyson Perrins copy.
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