Strasbourg (Evêque de), Thevenard, 2517

MUSEUM

OF

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PAINTING AND SCULPTURE,

OR

COLLECTION

OF THE

PRINCIPAL PAINTINGS, STATUES
AND BAS-RELIEFS

IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GALLERIES OF EUROPE,

DRAWN AND ETCHED ON STEEL PLATES

By Reveil;

WITH DESCRIPTIVE, CRITICAL, AND HISTORICAL NOTICES,

By Duchesne, Senior.

LONDON, PUBLISHED BY

BOSSANGE, BARTHÉS, AND LOWELL,
FOREIGN BOOKSELLERS, 14, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

PRICE, EIGHTEEN PENCE EACH PART,
Consisting of 6 plates and 12 pages of text small 8°.

A taste for the Fine Arts is rapidly spreading throughout Europe. In all places efforts are making to enrich and complete collections already existing; and enlightened men and extensive funds. are alike devoted to the formation of new ones, by which means emulation between Artists is daily increased. The first desire with travellers is to visit the Public Galleries, to examine them carefully, in order to derive from them instruction and pleasure at the same time. Engravings with descriptive notices, equally assist their judgment, and recall to their minds many things which would otherwise be partially forgotten.

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For the use of the friends of the Arts, and of all persons who seek instruction therein, works with engravings have been published of the principal European Galleries, such as those at Vienna, Florence, Paris and England; but hitherto they have been confined to some particular Museum, or private Collection. No one work has contained all the Chefs-d'OEuvre, the interest and claims to admiration of which would have been increased had they been collected into one focus.

Some persons have thought that the present work is a continuation to the Annales du Musée et de l'École moderne des BeauxArts, published by the late M. Landon; others have imagined that it is only a copy. Both opinions are incorrect. Our plan is quite different and if, in the numbers already published, there are objects which appeared in M. Landon's Work, both parties have been to the original source; and in this case, neither the engraving or the text have been copied from the Annales du Musée. In the last mentioned work there are several Architectural Drawings, and Designs which were exhibited at the Salons, but there are not any Paintings from the Foreign Galleries, with the exception of those which, from political circumstances, have been in the Louvre. In our publication, all the collections in Europe will be under contribution; in it the subscribers will find a selection of Paintings and Statues from the most celebrated Galleries, and private collections, provided the composition is fine, and of undoubted originality.

THE MUSEUM OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE may therefore, without presuming too much, be considered as an UNIVERSAL GALLERY; the traveller will renew his acquaintance with what he has seen in the Vatican, the Capitoline Museum, the Churches in Rome, the Museum of Naples, the Florence Gallery, the Towns of Bologna, Parma, Modena, Saint-Mark's Palace at Venice, the Belvidere Gallery, the Esterhazy and Lichtenstein Collections at Vienna, the Dresden Gallery, so rich in Italian Masters, the Munich Gallery, in which is comprised the splendid Dusseldorf Collection, formed by the Elector Palatine, those that decorate the Palaces of Schieisheim, Sans-Souci, and the New Palace at Potsdam, and also those of the early Italian School, collected regardless of expense by M. Solly, which the King of Prussia has lately purchased. The Museums of Amsterdam and the Hague will also furnish their share; and lastly, that which will be a decided desideratum with English Artists, is, that our work will contain some Antiques from the British Museum,