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Author: Babelon, Jean
Title: Choix de bronzes de la collection Caylus donné au Roi en 1762.
Publication: Paris, G. Van Oest 1928.
Price: £120
Reference: 04070
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Large 4to. 56 + (4)pp, 24 photo plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers, neatly repaired.
Scholarly catalogue of the collection of 42 Roman bronzes given by the Comte de Caylus to the Cabinet du Roi in 1762, of which some are of Italian provenance, others from a hoard found at Chalon-sur-Saône. The catalogue is of more general value for Babelon’s assessment of Caylus as a collector and for its information on Caylus’s dealings with Paciaudi, Winckelmann and other knowledgeable contemporaries.