Florilege des amours de Ronsard, 1948

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Medium

unbound volume with 128 lithographs, including 2 on the cover, 1 on the frontispiece, 27 full-page lithographs and 98 within the text; all in sanguine except for 1 in black on the titlepage

Dimensions

book: 39 × 30 × 6.5 cm (15 3/8 × 11 13/16 × 2 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Duthuit/Garnaud 1988, no. 25

Accession Number

2014.112.30

Artists / Makers

Henri Matisse (artist) French, 1869 - 1954

Pierre Ronsard (author) French, 1524 - 1585

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Inscription

signed on justification page, in black ink: H. Matisse; in blue ink: (author's signature)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Bibliography

1988: Duthuit, Claude and François Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988: no. 25.