DUCHESNE,, Jean (1779--1855)
Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon, ... Estampes et ouvrages a figures. Par Duchesne ainé.
Paris (Place), imprimerie d'Hippolyte Tilliard,, 1826.
[2], vi, 216 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 (3) with L.J.J. Dubois's Description des objets d'arts ... Monuments antiques, historiques, modernes, 1826 (q.v.) and A.N. Pérignon's 's Description des objets d'arts ... Tableaux, dessins et miniatures, 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 6479

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