Essai Sur La Nature, Le But Et Les Moyens De L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux-Arts. Par M. Quatremere De Quincy.

Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2383

Author

Variant Title

Essai Sur L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux-Arts

Imprint

Paris,: Treuttel Et Würtz, Libraires, Rue De Bourbon, No 17;, A Strasbourg Et A Londres,: Même Maison De Commerce., 1823.

Physical Description

xii, 435, [1] p.; 223 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Half-t., t.p.] - Préambule - [Text] - Table Des Paragraphes Contenus Dans Cet Ouvrage.

Responsibility Note

The printer is named on the half-title verso: 'Imprimerie de Jules Didot, l'aîné, Imprimeur de Roi.'

References

RIBA, Early printed, 3 (1999), no. 2680, p.1592.

S. Lavin, 'Architectural imitation', in S. Lavin, Quatremère de Quincy and the invention of a modern language of architecture (1992), p.[102-]113.

Summary Note

A variant title is given on the half-title page: 'Essai Sur L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux-Arts'.

An admirer of ancient Greek art, the author became a hostile critic of Romanticism; and in this essay deplores contemporary indifference to history painting and preference for 'realism' and less exalted subjects.

An English translation was published in 1837, as An essay on the nature, the end and the means of imitation in the fine arts.

Reproductions

A facsimile of this and other works was published in 1980, with introduction by D. Porphyrios, as De l'imitation 1823 (Brussels: Archives d'Architecture Moderne).

Copy Note

Imperfect: lacks the half-title.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Quatremere De Quincy Essai Sur L'Imitation Dans Les Beaux Arts.'

Subject

Imitation - Aesthetics - Art - Arts - Theory
Essays - France - 19th century

Contributors

Treuttel & Würtz, bookseller