GIRARDET, Karl. Album of Travel Drawings. - Lot 164

GIRARDET, Karl. Album of Travel Drawings. First edition of this album featuring travel drawings and sketches (Switzerland, Egypt, Tyrol, and Italy) reproduced as heliogravures. No place [Paris], no publisher [Sandoz], no date [1883]. 1 in-4 booklet (44 pp., printed blue cover); one engraved portrait and 100 plates reproduced as heliogravures; all housed in the publisher’s cardboard slipcase with flaps made of green percaline and decorated with a black-and-gold design on the top cover. Scuffing on the slipcase; one of the flaps is detached; foxing. First edition of this album featuring, reproduced as heliogravures, the travel drawings and sketches by Karl Girardet (1813–1871) from 1840 to 1850 in Switzerland, Egypt, Tyrol, and Italy. The engraved portrait is by Robert Girardet, and the heliogravures are by Max Girardet, the painter’s nephew. Introduction by Auguste Bachelin (1830–1890), a Swiss art historian and painter. Enclosed: the subscription form (double-leaf folio). Karl Girardet (1813–1871), trained in Paris under Léon Cogniet, was the official court painter to Louis-Philippe. He distinguished himself in history painting, Romantic landscape, and Orientalist scenes.