Large Folio, Spitzer Collection, One of the most important art collections 1893

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Seller: kassan99 ✉️ (342) 100%, Location: Tuckahoe, New York, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE & many other countries, Item: 254502592533 Large 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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