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Item:254502592533Large Folio, Spitzer Collection, One of the most important art collections 1893. Moreau E. Paris, 1893. 1st Edition. Atlas volume with 68 plates of all the items sold
over a 2 month time period in 1893 in Paris plus 15 plates of Arms and Armor. Most folios seem to just have the 68 plates. 24 by 16 inches in the
original portfolio.First few plates has some chipping and small edge tears
but over all quite good with no stains or major damages. Paper is
flexible. This catalog is quite scarce. Rarely offered for
sale, a unique and unequaled reference. Quite large, 24 by 16 inches (61 by 40 cm) Frederic Spitzer (1815–1890) was born in Vienna, according to some
reports to a father who was a grave-digger. After a career in the army,
he returned home and bought his first artwork, an engraving by Albrecht
Dürer which he later sold in Paris for a huge profit, the start of his
personal fortune. In 1852, he settled in Paris and became one of
Europe’s leading buyers and sellers of art, especially known for his
passion for medieval and Renaissance art. Upon his death in 1890, his
private collection was one of the largest and most coveted in fin de siècle Europe. A newspaper correspondent in Paris described him in 1893 as “a
man of humble, even low origin, who possessed the instinct of the
curiosity hunter, the flair du bibelot. He commenced life as a
peddling curiosity monger, then established himself as a curiosity
dealer in Paris. His artistic knowledge soon became known, and
collectors like Baron Adolphe de Rothschild and Sir Richard Wallace
confided their interests to him. Spitzer himself stated that he had done
business to the amount of over 60,000,000 f
with these two customers alone. . . . He had built himself a mansion
near the Arc de Triomphe, with galleries in which, as in the Louvre,
objects of art were arranged in glass cases and catalogued in order, so
as to bring before the eyes of visitors the complete history of the art
of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance” The Spitzer collection was publicly auctioned over 3 months
in 1893. In the months before the sale, editorials in American
newspapers appealed to institutions or private donors to coordinate to
purchase the collection as a whole for a public museum such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite such pleas, most of the collection
was bought by the Australian-born but London-based private collector
George Salting (1835–1909), who bequeathed his collection to the British
Museum, the National Gallery in London, and the Victoria and Albert
Museum
Condition:Spine coming apart, needs repair or rebinding. Some plates with discoloration and some with chipping at the edges. Overall quite good considering the age.
Year Printed:1893
Country/Region of Manufacture:France
Topic:Art History
Binding:Cloth
Region:Europe
Author:Spitzer
Subject:Gothic and Renaissance Antiques
Original/Facsimile:Original
Language:French
Publisher:Moreau
Place of Publication:Paris
Special Attributes:1st Edition, Illustrated
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