LA LIVE de JULY, Ange-Laurent - Lot 75

LA LIVE de JULY, Ange-Laurent Catalog historique du cabinet de peinture et sculpture françoise de M. de La Live, Paris, P. Al. Le Prieur, 1764 TOPOGRAPHIC CATALOGUE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST COLLECTIONS OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY PUBLISHED BY ITS OWNER. A PERSONAL COPY OF THE LIVE DE JULY, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO. ANCIENNE COLLECTION CLÉMENT DE RIS ET D'ARMAILLÉ ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (200 x 132 mm). Title set in a woodcut frame, dedication to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, woodcut bands. COLLATION: viii-(1)-124pp. ILLUSTRATION: portrait of La Live de July after Charles Nicolas Cochin, one illustration by Le Fèvre, all engraved on copper by La Live de July himself. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Red morocco, gilt decoration, triple fillet framing, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Ange-Laurent de La Live de July (bookplate) -- comte M. Clément de Ris (handwritten bookplate and mention of purchase) -- comte Louis de La Forest d'Armaillé (bookplate) -- marquis de Luppé (bookplate) Ange-Laurent de La Live de July (1725-1779) was one of the greatest connoisseurs of the 18th century. He was the brother of the Comtesse d'Houdetot, Saint-Lambert's mistress and Rousseau's famous correspondent. Through his second marriage in 1762, he also became the brother-in-law of Jean-Joseph de Laborde, court banker and owner of Château de Méréville. La Live de July was one of Greuze's principal patrons. Her portrait, painted by Greuze, is in the Kress Collection at the National Gallery (Washington). Its description appears in the present Historical Catalogue on page 55. In this work, La Live de July provides a personal commentary on each of his works. The collection was sold in 1770 with a catalog written by Pierre Rémy (Catalogue des tableaux des différentes écoles, des figures, bustes... qui composent le cabinet de M. de La Live de July, Paris, 1769). BIBLIOGRAPHY : L. Clément de Ris, Les Amateurs d'autrefois, Paris, 1877, pp. 383-405, who comments on the sale catalog.