Calix, Costumes de la Cour de France, 1861.
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- Condition : very good condition, minor rubbing to headpieces, front flyleaf slightly stained, the first plate slightly browned, some minor staining and light foxing, generally fresh and clean.
- Illustrations : 20 plates under serpents, printed in black and enhanced with watercolor, engraved by A. Portier, G. Montaut d'Oleron and Monnin.
- Volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : contemporary black cardboard with gilt decoration and title.
- Format : in-4.
- Pages: 20 plates.
- Publisher : Paris, Moine.
- Date : (1861).
- Reference : Bryan, Dictionnaire des Peintres et des Graveurs 1886 - 1889.
The collection of costume plates relating to the Costumes of the Court from Charles VII to Louis XVI has had at least two editions. One in 1854 was published by Les Modes Parisiennes under the title Album Keepsake des Costumes de la Cour française depuis Charles VII jusquà Louis XVI, the other was published in 1861 by L'Illustrateur des Dames which distributed part of the print run to its subscribers as a bonus under the title Costumes de la Cour depuis Charles VII jusquà Louis XVI.
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François Claudius Compte-Calix was a French painter, illustrator, and engraver born in Lyon in 1813. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, where he attended the studio of Claude Bonnefonds. His master passed on to him a taste for neoclassical composition, which Compte-Calix treated with a romantic ardor. In 1837, one of his works was selected for the Salon de Lyon, then in 1840 for the Salon de Paris. At the age of thirty-one, he was commissioned to decorate the chapel of the general hospital in Issoire. The painter took as his subject the romantic legend of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. This painting, grandiose and epic in the feelings expressed, but with a sober pictorial treatment and a composition full of restraint, is a true masterpiece. It marks the beginning of the success that Compte-Calix will know during most of his career.
The first subjects of inspiration of the painter are fully romantic. He delivers genre scenes, battles and portraits whose style evolves with the maturity of the artist. Compte-Calix expresses the feelings of the society that surrounds him, the cult of feminine beauty, but also the representation of scenes from the Ancien Régime, symbols of the art of living. A fashionable portraitist, he enjoyed the patronage of foreign diplomats and painted, among others, the double portraits of the Brazilian diplomat, the Marquis of Itamaraty and his wife, exhibited in Rio de Janeiro. Alongside his pictorial work, it should be noted that Compte-Calix, as a true lover of all aspects of femininity, produced numerous fashion engravings for publications such as the Journal des Modes, the Bijou or the Musée des Dames.
He died in 1880, at the age of sixty-six.
Condition | Used - Very Good |
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Language | France |
Artist / Illustrator | Calix François Claudius |
Illustrated | Yes |
Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1861 |
Year | 1861 |
Editor | Moine |
First edition | No |
Signed edition | No |
Signed binding | No |
Armorial binding | No |
Binding / Format | Hardcover |
Size | 33 x 25 cm |