PERIGNON,, Alexis Nicolas (1785--1864)
Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, ... Tableaux, dessins et miniatures. Par A.N. Pérignon.
Paris (Place), imprimerie d'Hippolyte Tilliard,, 1826.
[2], iv, 218 p. ; 19.9 cm. (8º)

Vivant-Denon was director-general of museums and head of the new Musée Napoléon (the future Musée du Louvre) between 1804 and 1815.

Copy Notes Bound (2) with L.J.J. Dubois's Description des objets d'arts ... Monuments antiques, historiques, modernes, 1826 (q.v.) and J. Duchesne's Description des objets d'arts ... Estampes et ouvrages à figures, 1826 (q.v.).

Binding Later C19th half calf, brown morocco-grain cloth boards, blind roll-tooled borders, gilt-dotted and blind-ruled spine, red morocco spine-labels. George Richmond was paid 2s. 6d., 20 May 1853. (Curatorial Papers/Bailey/Parcel 1)

Reference Number 2996

Additional Names Richmond, George, bookbinder; Denon, Dominique Vivant, baron (1747--1825) - Art collections