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Title: Pieter Brueghel le Vieux: French Text Seconde Edition: Second Edition
Description: Paris: Editions Hyperion, 1939. Second Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Cover is cream/brown tweed look with Brueghel stamped in dark brown letters on front; brown lettering on spine. Pages are tight and overall quite clean. DJ has a paste down from one of the paintings. Title page states second edition, Paris, Editions Hyperion, but then is stamped under that, in red, 'Made in England'; also states 'traduit par Jean Petithuguenin', but not certain what is supposed to be translated, as all of the text is in French. Copyright page states 1936, printed in Belgium. On the verso page facing the title page it states, in French, was reprinted in April 1939 for Editions Hyperion, Paris, etc. There are 35 pages of text, each describing a plate. Not all of the plates are numbered; some pages have a large, clear Roman number in the bottom corner. There are dozens of color paste downs of each brilliant painting; some of the paste downs are lose at one side; each is framed by grey outlining. Many of the color paintings also have a b/w detail of the previous paste down plate. " Pieter Brueghel the Elder or Bruegel (c.1525 – September 9, 1569) was a Flemish/Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Brueghel" is being referred to. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter Mayke he later married. In 1551 he was accepted as a master in the painters' guild of Antwerp. He traveled to Italy...later settline in Brussels. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Both became painters, but as they were still infants when their father died and neither received any training from him. " A scarce book and version of this important collection of Peter Brueghel, the Elder's works. Oversized, 5#. ; B & W and Color; 9 x 12 1/2; 35 pages; Hardcover has shelf wear, bumping, sunning/fading, some foxing throughout the book; miscellaneous faint stain marks on all sides of text block. Tidy black ink inscription in upper corner of front end paper, dated Christmas 1942. DJ has most damage, but is still entire and intact. Has rubbing/fading/scraping on various spots all over, sunning, shelf wear, bumping; what may be remains of water marks at bottom of spine/front cover. In a mylar cover.. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: Art; Artists; Painters; Paintings; European Art; European Artists; Biography; Flemish Art; Flemish Artists;

Price: US$ 71.00 Seller: Pegasus Books
- Book number: 6941

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