Nice Vue prise audessus de Montalban
| Reference: | MS8465 |
| Author | Alfred GUESDON |
| Year: | 1849 ca. |
| Zone: | Nice |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 440 x 280 mm |
€700.00
| Reference: | MS8465 |
| Author | Alfred GUESDON |
| Year: | 1849 ca. |
| Zone: | Nice |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 440 x 280 mm |
€700.00
Description
Alfred Guesdon was born in Nantes, June the 13th 1808. Once he finished his classical studies, in 1829, he went to Paris, to study architecture as a pupil of Antoine Martin Garnaud. Starting from 1830, he devoted himself to experimentations and researches on the art of lithography, especially on historical subjects, views and landscapes he took from his many trips around Europe. The distinctiveness of these views is the fact that they are the first representations of the cities from above, realized on board of an air balloon.
In 1849 he published the lithographic plates in the famous L’Italie à vol d’oiseau, o storia e descrizione sommaria delle principali città di questo paese di H. Etiennez, accompagnate da 40 grandi vedute generali, disegnate dal vero da Alfred Guesdon e litografate con due tinte da A. Rouargue, Jules Arnout, A. Cuvillier, A. Guesdon.
Tinted litograph, with fine later hand colour, very good condition.
Very rare.
Literature
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Bibliografia: D. Straffolino, Alfred Guesdon, L'Italie a vol d'oiseau (1849). La veduta a volo d'uccello dalle ali di Icaro alla mongolfiera; Cremonini, L’Italia nelle vedute e crate geografiche, pp. 241/242.
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Alfred GUESDON (Nantes 1808 - ?)
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Painter, lithographer and architect, Alfred Guesdon having completed his classical studies in 1829 he leaves for Paris to enter as a student in the studio of architect Antoine Martin Garnaud. From 1830 he devoted himself to experimentation and research in the field of lithography, preferring historical subjects, views and panoramas, taken from the numerous trips he did in Europe.
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Literature
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Bibliografia: D. Straffolino, Alfred Guesdon, L'Italie a vol d'oiseau (1849). La veduta a volo d'uccello dalle ali di Icaro alla mongolfiera; Cremonini, L’Italia nelle vedute e crate geografiche, pp. 241/242.
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Alfred GUESDON (Nantes 1808 - ?)
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Painter, lithographer and architect, Alfred Guesdon having completed his classical studies in 1829 he leaves for Paris to enter as a student in the studio of architect Antoine Martin Garnaud. From 1830 he devoted himself to experimentation and research in the field of lithography, preferring historical subjects, views and panoramas, taken from the numerous trips he did in Europe.
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