Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
by Breton, Jules
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. 1891 Appleton Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Life of an Artist: Art and Nature, Jules Breton, D. Appleton and Company, New York 1891, x, 350 pp., 9½ x 7½ inches.
Vellumboards with gilt titling to spine and cover, slightly soiled top edge gilt, cover and spine soiled and scuffed, wear to bottom edge, corners worn to boards, former owner's name plate inside cover, pages toned. 1891 Appleton edition. Limited edition, 116/500 copies. Good condition.
"With charming frankness and simplicity Jules Breton relates in this volume his memories of boyhood, the aspirations and struggles of youth, and the associations of those later years when Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, and others of that memorable company still lived to the glory of the national art which Breton himself represents so worthily.
Vellumboards with gilt titling to spine and cover, slightly soiled top edge gilt, cover and spine soiled and scuffed, wear to bottom edge, corners worn to boards, former owner's name plate inside cover, pages toned. 1891 Appleton edition. Limited edition, 116/500 copies. Good condition.
"With charming frankness and simplicity Jules Breton relates in this volume his memories of boyhood, the aspirations and struggles of youth, and the associations of those later years when Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, and others of that memorable company still lived to the glory of the national art which Breton himself represents so worthily.
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- Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 817
- Title
- Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
- Author
- Breton, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1891 Appleton Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- art, Jules Breton, artist france
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