Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XV. 19e année - Deuxième période du 1er janvier 1877 au 1er juin 1877

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, corners slightly bumped, leading edges scraped, headcaps torn, spine with four raised bands gilt in blind, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Duranty, Paul Mantz, Champfleury, Ludovic Lalanne and Louis Gonse among others; fine etching printed hors-texte by Emile Boilvin.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white engravings hors-texte as well as a facsimile of a watercolor by Ingres in colors.
La Gazette des beaux-arts is a French art review, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as editor-in-chief; it ceased publication in 2002.
For nearly one hundred and fifty years it was a worldwide reference in art history.