Trattato Della Pittura Di Lionardo Da Vinci. Nouamente dato in luce, con la vita dell’istesso autore, scritta da Rafaelle du Fresne.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF LEONARDO DA VINCI'S TRATTATO DELLA PITTURA DI LIONARDO DA VINCI

Trattato Della Pittura Di Lionardo Da Vinci. Nouamente dato in luce, con la vita dell’istesso autore, scritta da Rafaelle du Fresne.

DU FRESNE, Rafaelle. [Leonardo Da Vinci].

Item Number: 136570

In Parigi: Apresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651.

First edition of Da Vinci’s classic treatise on painting, compiled from his original notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi and containing the same illustrations used in the French translation of the treatise published by Langlois in the same year, where they are attributed to Poussin. Folio, bound in full eighteenth century calf with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous engravings throughout, additional frontispiece incorporating a portrait of Leonardo, engraved plate with portrait of Alberti. Brunet V 1257; Graesse VI 327. In very good condition. A very attractive example of this rarity.

“Leonardo's writings and notes long remained in manuscript. Shortly after his death an industrious compiler brought together those passages from his posthumous papers dealing with painting and combined them into a Treatise of Painting (Trattato della pittura); but this important manuscript, which also preserves much that is no longer to be found in Leonardo's own notes, was only edited and published in the 17th century in France" (E.H. Gombrich, The Literature of Art).

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