Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Tome XXIII. 23e année - Deuxième période du 1er janvier 1881 au 1er juin 1881

First edition.
Full red cloth binding, marbled edges, publisher's binding.
Contributions by Paul Mantz, Alfred Darcel, Louis Gonse, Ludovic Lalanne, Charles Yriarte, Alfred de Lostalot and Paul Chéron among others; original etching by Léon Bonnat.
Review illustrated with numerous black and white plates.
Our copy is incomplete: it lacks the original etching by James Whistler (p367).
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.