107. GALERIE DE FLORENCE BY MONGEZ, Paris 1819 with 192 fine plates, 2 volumes.

GALLERY DE FLORENCE. MONGEZ, ANTOINE - VICAR, JEAN-BAPTISTE JOSEPH. Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs and cameos from the gallery of Florence and the Pitti Palace, designed by Wicar, and engraved under the direction of C. L. Masquelier. Tome Premier - (Quatrième). 4 parts in 2 volumes. Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819.

Large folio (560x360 mm). With engraved frontispiece and 192 (of 200, lacking issue 49 and 50 with 8 plates) engraved plates. Most plates carry two prints - the upper showing usually a painting but sometimes a piece of ancient sculpture; the lower, one or two ancient engraved gems. Plates partly slight foxing, occasionally heavier or light browning, marginal steamstaining to one plate in vol. IV. 1 tissue-guard almost detached and creased.
Contemporary half red morocco, somewhat rubbed and worn, lower corners bumped.
NOTE! Lacking the final 2 issues 49 and 50 with together 8 plates published in 1821.

The work is dedicated by Lacombe to Pierre-Léopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany (afterwards Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II).

Magnificently designed catalog of the Florentine galleries, first published between 1789 and 1814 in 48 editions.

The subjects of the ancient sculptures and gems are mythological. Most of the paintings show Christian or mythological subjects, but some are allegories, portraits, 'genre' scenes or landscapes.
The artists whose work is shown are: An. Carracci (4 pl.), Albani (3 pl.), Cigoli (6), Furino (2), Rubens (6), Cignani, Titian (7), Guercino (4), Cantarini, school of Rubens, Vanbalen, Ghiberti, Guido (7), L. Jordans, Both, Giulio Romano (3), F. Rustichino (2), Raphael (6), Fra Bartolomeo (6), Pietro da Cortona (10), L. Giordano (2), Eglon Van der Neer (2), A. Allori ( 2), C. Allori, C. Lotti (2), Van Dyck (2), Mieris (4), Mengs, Vandevelde, Van der Verf, Bassano, C. Ferri (2), Gherardo Delle Notte (2), Correggio (2), Corrado (2), Berghem, Salvator Rosa (5), Michelangelo, Pingelbais, G. Netscher (3), Domenichino, Biliverti (2), Morandini, Mariotto Albertinelli, Lanfranco, Terburg, Caravaggio (3), Bronzino (2), A. del Sarto (3), Corneille de Bega, C. Dolci (2), Vigée Le Brun, Jean de Saint Jean, Giorgione, Santi di Tito, F. Barocci, Capin Génois, Rembrandt (2), Parmegiano (3), 'Ecole Florentine', A. Kauffman, Sodoma, Palma Vecchio, 'Titian or Palma Vecchio', Cesare da Cesto, G. Carponi, Lanfranco, 'Ecole Hollandaise', Trevisani, F. Zucchero, 'Inconnu' , J. Ma nnozi. (Royal Academy).