Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XVI - Du 1er janvier 1864 au 1er juin 1864

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, corners slightly bumped, covers scratched, headcaps worn, slight crease on upper board, spine with five raised bands gilt and blind-tooled, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Charles Blanc ("Eugène Delacroix"), Albert Jacquemart, Champfleury, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ("Chardin") and Victor Hugo ("Les Rues et les maisons du vieux Blois") among others; engraving by Héliodore Pisan.
Review illustrated with numerous full-page black and white engravings, as well as several folding plates.
The 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.