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Album du Cortège des Comtes de Flandre, personnages et costumes dessinés par Félix De Vigne , peintre d'histoire, Professeur à l'Académie de Gand , membre de la Société des Beaux-Arts, de l'Académie d'Amsterdam. Texte historique et descriptif par Edmond De Busscher... Deuxième édition. Tome Premier (- Tome Second).
Gand ( Gent ), Imprimerie De Busscher, frères à Gand, 1852, in-8°, 25,5 x 17,5 cm, (12) nn pp + 205 pp + 80 black/white lithographic costume plates (including the frontispiece). Sewn, orig. printed wrapper, wrapper a bit frayed, spine re-inforced with a strip of adhesive imitiation leather, inside a clean copy. Text in French. Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) painter and writer (in Dutch and French) was the designer of the costumes of this pageant organised in Ghendt in 1849 and which evoked the Middle Ages in Flanders , the Counts of Flanders. The artist , himself a history painter, was one of the first during this neogothic revival to strive for historical correctness. He also published a well illustrated manual on historical, mainly mediaeval, costume and weaponry to instruct his fellow history painters in the art of history painting..
Chars du Cortège des Comtes de Flandre, dessinés par Félix De Vigne , peintre d'histoire, Professeur à l'Académie de Gand , membre de la Société des Beaux-Arts, de l'Académie d'Amsterdam. Texte historique et descriptif par Edmond De Busscher...
7. Gand ( Gent ), Imprimerie et Lithographie de De Busscher frères , 1853, in-8°, 26,5 x 17 cm, (10) nn pp + 48 pp + 10 chromolithographic plates ( frontispiece included) . Bound in red contemporary quarter leather . Binding with some wear and use, Joints partly broken but still holding. Interior flawless. Text in French. Fine copy of this pageant book with nicely coloured plates. Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) painter and writer (in Dutch and French) was the designer of the costumes of this pageant organised in Ghendt in 1849 and which evoked the Middle Ages in Flanders , the Counts of Flanders. The artist , himself a history painter, was one of the first during this neogothic revival to strive for historical correctness. He also published a well illustrated manual on historical, mainly mediaeval, costume and weaponry to instruct his fellow history painters in the art of history painting..
Album du Cortège des Comtes de Flandre, personnages et costumes dessinés par Félix De Vigne , peintre d'histoire, Professeur à l'Académie de Gand , membre de la Société des Beaux-Arts, de l'Académie d'Amsterdam. Texte historique et descriptif par Edmond De Busscher... Deuxième édition. Tome Premier (- Tome Second).
10. Gand ( Gent ), Imprimerie De Busscher, frères à Gand, 1852, in-8°, 25,5 x 17,5 cm, (12) nn pp + 205 pp + 80 handcoloured lithographic costume plates (including the frontispiece). Bound in contemporary full green porocco, Both covers with gilt decoration and a coat of arms supra libro. All edges gilt. White watery silk endpapers. Very nice binding with minimal traces of use ( binding signed F. Thys - a Ghendt binder active 1850 - 1877). Text in French. Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) painter and writer (in Dutch and French) was the designer of the costumes of this pageant organised in Ghendt in 1849 and which evoked the Middle Ages in Flanders , the Counts of Flanders. The artist , himself a history painter, was one of the first during this neogothic revival to strive for historical correctness. He also published a well illustrated manual on historical, mainly mediaeval, costume and weaponry to instruct his fellow history painters in the art of history painting. A very nice '' de luxe'' copy , handcolored and in an attractive binding..
