Venise - Grand Canal
| Reference: | S47403 |
| Author | Paul Edme DE MUSSET |
| Year: | 1855 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 260 x 165 mm |
€100.00
| Reference: | S47403 |
| Author | Paul Edme DE MUSSET |
| Year: | 1855 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 260 x 165 mm |
€100.00
Description
View taken from Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Illustrations de MM. Rouargues Fréres. Paris, Morizot, s.a. Imprimerie Gratiot by Paul de Musset.
This is a delightful and scholarly guide through the towns and villages of central southern Italy, containing 23 engravings by the Rouargue brothers.
In the years 1855-1856 another very extensive version of the same voyage was published: two large volumes of more than five hundred pages each, entitled Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Partie septentrionale, and Voyage pittoresque en Italie (Partie méridionale) et en Sicile.
Copperplate, fine later hand colour, in excellent condition.
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Paul Edme de Musset, born in Paris 7 November 1804, died in the same city 17 May 1880, was a French writer.
Brother of Alfred de Musset, he was well known for his family, who were very famous at the time, as well as for his own writings, including biographies.
In 1859, two years after the death of his brother, Paul de Musset published Lui et Elle, a parody of the autobiography of George Sand, Elle et Lui, published six months previously and dealing with his relationship with Alfred de Musset. In 1861, he married Aimée d'Alton, who had also been involved with Alfred de Musset and whom she had also been engaged to in her youth.
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Paul Edme de Musset, born in Paris 7 November 1804, died in the same city 17 May 1880, was a French writer.
Brother of Alfred de Musset, he was well known for his family, who were very famous at the time, as well as for his own writings, including biographies.
In 1859, two years after the death of his brother, Paul de Musset published Lui et Elle, a parody of the autobiography of George Sand, Elle et Lui, published six months previously and dealing with his relationship with Alfred de Musset. In 1861, he married Aimée d'Alton, who had also been involved with Alfred de Musset and whom she had also been engaged to in her youth.
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