ROYAL GALLERY OF DRESDEN] - Recueil d'estampes d'après les - Lot 361

ROYAL GALLERY OF DRESDEN] - Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde. Dresden, 1753-1757. 2 volumes in one vol. broadside, (2) ff, XXVII pp, (2) ff (gallery plan), (2) ff (portraits), 43 pl. of which 3 on double page; XXXIII (1) pp, 48 pl. including 2 on double page; 9 pl. /100 missing, one torn without missing, three torn off, 19th c. midnight blue morocco, dent. and gilt thread on boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt tr., qq. epid. COHEN 423. THIEME-BECKER XVIII, 189. Portraits of Augustus III Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and of his wife Marie-Josèphe Archduchess of Austria (2 pl.), plan of the gallery (2 pl.) Ninety-one plates: paintings by Correggio, Le Parmesan, Nicolo dell'Abbate, Andrea del Sarto, J. Romain, Titian, Veronese, Procacchini, Carrache, Reni, Vanini, Feti, Ribera, Preti, Giordano, C. Dolci, Maratti, Cignani, Langetti, Rubens, Bellini, Dosso, Tintoretto, Salviati, Basan, Turco, Ricci, Francia, Albane, Le Guerchin, Lanfranc, Tiarini, Cantarini, Scarsellino, Castiglione, Biscaïno, Vaccaro, Solimène, Pagani, Holbein, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Berghem. Because of his knowledge of art, Karl Heinrich Heineken was commissioned by the Elector of Saxony to make important acquisitions and reorganize his collections, until he was finally appointed director of the gallery. In 1748, Heineken commissioned eight draughtsmen and forty engravers to perpetuate a collection that still survives after many peregrinations. Provenance: Collection of Marquis Alphonse d'Aoust (1819-1909); by descent to the current owner.