Roquefort (Jean-Baptiste-Bonaventure de) Vues Pittoresques et Perspectives des Salles du Musée des Monumens François, engraved title-vignette, 20 engraved plates by Réville and Lavallée after Vauzelle, engraved plan, tissue guards, list of subscribers at end, some foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, corners repaired, [BAL 3554; Not in Berlin Kat.], large folio, Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1816. ⁂ Sumptuous record of works rescued from churches and other buildings during the French Revolution, which came to be known as the Musée des Monuments Français, first opened in 1793 in the deconsecrated Augustinian convent in Paris. Following the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty the museum was effectively dismantled in 1816 and many of the contents returned to the previous aristocratic owners. The site then became the premises of the École des Beaux-Arts.
Roquefort (Jean-Baptiste-Bonaventure de) Vues Pittoresques et Perspectives des Salles du Musée des Monumens François, engraved title-vignette, 20 engraved plates by Réville and Lavallée after Vauzelle, engraved plan, tissue guards, list of subscribers at end, some foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, corners repaired, [BAL 3554; Not in Berlin Kat.], large folio, Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1816. ⁂ Sumptuous record of works rescued from churches and other buildings during the French Revolution, which came to be known as the Musée des Monuments Français, first opened in 1793 in the deconsecrated Augustinian convent in Paris. Following the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty the museum was effectively dismantled in 1816 and many of the contents returned to the previous aristocratic owners. The site then became the premises of the École des Beaux-Arts.
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