Florence, Francesco Moucke, 1779. In 2nd. Allegorical vignette on the title page, drop caps, header of which 1 is folded, illustrated finials, with 19 full-page plates, some stains and scattered foxing, 16th century binding. XVIII in half brown leather, peeling on the back.
Specialist Notes
Original and unique edition in French, coeval with the first Italian edition. In this work the author re-proposes the thesis he had maintained in disagreement with Mengs regarding the attribution to Scopa of a group of Medici statues depicting the myth of Niobe, denied by the artist. Cicognara 3505.
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