Les Amours Des Dieux, Recueil De Compositions Dessinees Par Girodet. Girodet, Anne-Louis Prints

The loves of the gods, classically depicted. Girodet was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who participated in the early Romantic movement by including elements of eroticism in his paintings. Extended title: et Lithographiees par M. M. Aubry Le Comte. avec un texte explicatif Redige par M. :. A. Coupin. Folio, ii, 16pp descriptive text, 16 lithographic plates printed in Chine collé with tissue. Bound in full brown leather with original printed paper wrapper laid in on both the front and rear cover. Some scattered foxing throughout, mostly in margins, damp is visible on the upper, inner hinge and the last page of description loose and a little ruffled. Covers rubbed and marked. Overall the Chine collé plates are remarkably unscathed and are very pleasing to the eye. Sml. library stamp top of title page only. OCLC: 743015126 cites one copy at Montpellier but held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 17 7/8 x 11 3/8"