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Le Temple de Gnide: suivi d'Arsace et Isménie
Author: Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (French, 1689–1755)
Illustrated by: Jean-François Pierre Peyron (French, 1744–1814)
Etched by: Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin (French, 1735–1802)
Illustrated by: Jean-François Pierre Peyron (French, 1744–1814)
Etched by: Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin (French, 1735–1802)
1796
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book
Dimensions
Overall: 32.5 x 24.7 x 2.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 3/4 x 1 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.88
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description(A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, l'an IV de la République, 1796)
ProvenanceAlphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 – d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 – d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces and taken to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna; 1948, removed from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York [see note 1]; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The contents of their library were taken directly to the Nationalbibliothek, or National Library. This book appears in a 1948 list of books returned from the library to Clarice de Rothschild, kindly provided by Margot Werner of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The contents of their library were taken directly to the Nationalbibliothek, or National Library. This book appears in a 1948 list of books returned from the library to Clarice de Rothschild, kindly provided by Margot Werner of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.