Paris, Jean Schemit, 1911, in-4°, 29,5 x 23 cm, 109 pp + 25 plates h.t., index, printed on laid paper. Sewn, original stiff wrapper. (Wrapper, endpapers and some plates with minor spots or dustsoiling, endpapers browned). Lonsing received his first teachings at the Antwerp Academy. Charles of Lorraine offered him a scolarship in Rome. He settled in Bordeaux as a famous portraitist of the French nobility. Rare publication. Original first edition. Text in French. Livre en français.