LANDON, Charles-Paul (1760--1826)
[Annales du Musée. Seconde collection. Salon de 1808(-17)]
Salon de 1808. (... 1817.) Recueil de pièces choisies parmi les ouvrages de peinture et de sculpture exposés au Louvre ... par Charles-Paul Landon, ...
A Paris (Place), chez C.P. Landon, peintre; et au Dépôt des Annales du Musée. De l'imprimerie des Annales du Musée,, 1808--17.
7 vols. ; 20.8 cm. (8º)
1808 I : [4], 112 p., 72 [i.e. 54] pl. (12 fold.)
1808 II: [4], 7--143, [1] p., 72 [i.e. 62] pl. (7 fold.)
1810 : [4], 9--124 p., 72 [i.e. 62] pl. (8 fold.)
1812 I: 104 p., 72 [i.e. 62] pl. (10 fold.)
1812 II: 128 p., 72 [i.e. 64] pl. (4 fold.)
1814: 8, 3--124 p., [4], 68 [i.e. 59] pl. (8 fold.)
1817: 120 p., 72 [i.e. 60] pl. (11 fold.)

From 1810 onwards the 'Imprimerie de Chaigneau aíné' is named as the printer on the title-page. The title-page of the 1810 volume reads 'ouvrages de peinture et de sulture [sic]'. Folding plates are assigned two, three or four numbers each.

Copy Notes Imperfect; 1808 vol. I wants pl. 22, 29, 32, 41, 49 & 61; 1808 vol. II wants pl. 30; 1810 vol. wants pl. 42, 46 & 69; 1812 vol. I wants pl. 34, 35, 48, 59, 60, 61 & 66; 1812 vol. II wants pl. 17, 19, 21, 23, 30, 33, 52--42, 57 & 63; 1814 vol. wants pl. 44 & 64. The Salon de 1819 (2 vols), Salon de 1822 (2 vols) and later volumes are lacking in Soane's set; see Neil McWilliam, A bibliography of salon criticism in Paris from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, Cambridge 1986.

Binding C19th red paste-paper boards. Uniform with the other volumes of the Annales du Musée ('Première Collection', 1801--9, q.v. and 'Seconde Collection' starting in 1810--13, q.v.)

Reference Number 2582

Additional Names Musée du Louvre; Musée national du Luxembourg (France); Musée national de Versailles