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).

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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. Codice articolo 46726

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