DÉCAMPS Alexandre Le Musée, Revue du Salon de 1834, par Alexandre D…. [titre imprimé sur le premier plat de couverture].

Vicaire, III, 92-94 ; voir Bulletin Morgand, 19608.

Rare illustrated publication of the Romantic era, for private distribution only.

The book contains a report on the 1834 Salon by Alexandre Décamps, brother of the painter Alexandre-Gabriel Décamps, who exhibited several paintings that year, including La Défaite des Cimbres. But it is above all the presence of Eugène Delacroix that makes this brochure so interesting, an important milestone in the history of the Orientalist movement.

Illustrated with a frontispiece by Célestin Nanteuil and 25 lithographed plates, including 3 engravings by Nanteuil after Delacroix – Rencontre de cavaliers maures (refused), Femmes d'Alger, and Portrait de Rabelais – and works by Gigoux, Huet, Roqueplan, Ary Scheffer, A. Johannot, Barye, Amaury Duval, Cabat, Ziegler, etc., engraved by Nanteuil or other artists (see the complete list of plates in Vicaire).

In our copy, as in the one described in the Bulletin Morgand, the lithograph Femmes d'Alger is in first issue on India Proof paper.

Scattered  foxing.