12mo. No copy of this work has been traced.
Not in Halkett and Laing, Cushing, Stonehill and Block or Barbier; not in Lowndes or the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.; not
in Watt or Peddie; not in the British Museum Catalogue or in the National Union Catalog.
Not in the English Catalogue of Books.
Paillot de Montabert I, page 403, no. 41.
Dr. Eleanor Berman, in her
Thomas Jefferson among the Arts, refers to “Perrier’s
The Perfect Painter,” and in the Index lists the author as François Perrier. We have not succeeded in establishing this attribution. In Paillot
de Montabert the book is listed under the
Anonymes.
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Le vite de’ Pittori scultori e Architetti di Georgio Vasari.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 131, no. 19, as above.
VASARI,
Giorgio.
Delle Vite de’ più Eccellenti Pittori, Scvltori, et Architetti. Di Giorgio Vasari Pittore, & Architetto, Aretino. Parte Prima, e Seconda [-Parte Terza, Secondo Volume]. In questa nuoua edizione diligentemente reuiste, ricorette, accresciute d’ alcuni Ritratti, & arricchite di postille
nel margine. Al Serenissimo Ferdinando II. Gran Dvca di Toscana.
In
Bologna,
mdcxlviii. [-m.dc.lxiii.]
Per
gli Eredi di Euangelista Dozza. Con licenza de’ Superiori. [1648-1663.]
3 vol. 4to. Vol. I, Parte Prima, e Seconda with continuous signatures and paginations, 262 leave[s], Vol. II, Parte Terza,
Primo Volume, 274 leaves, Vol. III, Parte Terza, Secondo Volume, 292 leaves, half title in each volume, woodcut device on
the titles of Volumes II and III, woodcut device and imprint at the end of the text in Volume III, numerous woodcut portraits,
each within a border. The titles in the three volumes differ.
Graesse VI, 264.
Ebert 23406.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price
9.0.
Jefferson referred to the work of Vasari in his letter to Joseph Delaplaine dated from Monticello August 28, 1814, relative
to engraved portraits of Columbus and Americus Vespuccius [see De Bry,
Americæ Pars Qvinta
, no. 3977]: “
. . . the copy in my possession, of the size of the life. taken for me from the original which is in the gallery of Florence.
I say, from an original, because it is well known that in collections of any note, & that of Florence is the first in the
world,
no copy
is ever admitted; and an original existing in Genoa would readily be obtained for a royal collection in Florence. Vasari,
in his lives of the painters, names this portrait in the catalogue of the paintings in that gallery, but does not say by whom
it was made . . .
”
“In the same letter Jefferson mentioned to Delaplaine:
. . . the portrait is named in the catalogue of Vasari, and mentioned also by Bandini in his life of Americus Vespucius, but
neither gives it’s history--both tell us there was a portrait of Vespucius taken by Domenico, and a fine head of him by Da
Vinci, which however are lost, so that it would seem that this of Florence is the only one existing . . .
”
Giorgio Vasari, 1511-1571, Italian painter and artist, studied under Michel Angelo and Andrea del Sarto. His
Vite was first published in 1550, and revised and enlarged in 1558. It is dedicated to his patron Cosimo de’ Medici. The
Vite has been translated into French, German and English.
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Dictionnaire des Monogrammes de M. Christ.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 131, no. 16, as above.
CHRIST,
Johann Friedrich.
Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Chiffres, Lettres Initiales, Logogryphes, Rébus, &c. Sous lesquels les plus célébres Peintres,
Graveurs & Dessinateurs ont
