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Album litographique [sic]

Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet (called Horace Vernet) (French, 1789–1863)
Carle Vernet (French, 1758–1836)
Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835)
Jean-Lubin Vauzelle (French, born in 1776)
Nicholas Henri Jacob (French, 1782–1871)
(Anne) Claude Thiénon (French, 1772–1846)
Louis Hippolyte Lebas (French, 1782–1867)
Pierre- Joseph Redouté (French, born in Flanders, 1759–1840)
Florent-Fidele-Constant Bourgeois Du Castelet (French, 1767–1841)
Jean Louis Demarne (French, 1752?–1829)
Hippolyte Lecomte (French, 1781–1857)
Pierre Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774–1833)
Louis Hersent (French, 1777–1860)
Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld (French, 1758–1846)
Antoinette Cécile Hortense Lescot (French, 1784–1845)
Marie Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (French, 1773–1851)
Printer: François Séraphin Delpech (French, 1778–1825)
1819
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Bound album of 21 lithographs
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 26.8 x 1.3 cm (14 3/16 x 10 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number40.25
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsAlbums
Paris: Delpech [1819]

Description(Paris: Delpech [1819]) Folio; 21 leaves; contemporary blind- and gilt-stamped brown morocco. [STORED with 54.1041]

An album of 21 lithographs, with a title print ("Album litographique" [sic]) by Vauzelle with the imprint of Delpech. This title features an architectural border in moorish taste, with a view of a landscape in the distance. None of the twenty further plates carry any printer imprint; nine are dated 1818, one 1819. This set is bound uniformly with another dated [1818] printed and published by de Lasteyrie (54.1041). The plates in this album are as follows:

1) Vauzelle, "Album litographique" [sic]
2) Vauzelle, "Les pélerins bretons"
3) Jacob, "Hyppolite Reine des Amazones," 1818
4) Thiénon, "Vuë prise à Albano"
5) Lebas, "Fragments d'architecture antique," 1819
6) Redouté, "Rose à cent feuilles"
7) H. Vernet, "Mort de Tancrède," 1818
8) Lecomte, "Brigitte," 1818
9) C. Vernet, "Famille arabe en voyage"
10) Demarne, "L'Abreuvoir"
11) Bidauld, "Le Troupeau"
12) Guérin, "Le Repos du monde," 1818
13) Hersent, "Théocrite"
14) Bourgeois, "Vue du Chateau de Baugency," 1818
15) Lescot, "L'Aqua santa," 1818
16) Bourgeois, "Vue de Bagatelle," 1818
17) C. Vernet, "Les soins maternels"
18) Gros, ["Sheik mamelouk à cheval"]
19) Hersent, "Les baigneuses," 1818
20) Coupin, "Andromède"
21) H. Vernet, "Chasseur africain," 1818

MFA owns another copy of this album (42.619-639), plus a related earlier de Lasteyrie album (54.1041).
ProvenanceJean Goriany, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, February 8, 1940.