‎Société Française des Amis des Arts ( éditeur ) :‎
‎Société Française des Amis des Arts. 1888. Palais des Champs-Élysées Liste des Sociétaires. Compte rendu du Tirage et liste des oeuvres achetées.. au Salon de 1888.‎

‎ Paris, Société Française des Amis des Arts, typographie Georges Chamerot . 1888. In-folio, 47 x 33 cm, 24 nn pp + 8 full page engravings each with a serpent with printed caption. [1] Bonnat, portrait du cardinal Lavigerie, gravé par L. Massard. [2] L. Adan - Novembre gr. par Ch. de Billy. [3] J. Lefebvre - L'Orpheline, gr. par A.Didier. [4] Moreau de Tours - Assaut Malakoff, gr. par E.Salmon. [5] A. Aublet -Autour une partition , gr. par F.Milius. [6] A. Maignon -les voix du tocsin, gr. par G.Pélicier. [7] E.Hébert - Aux Héros sans gloire, gr. par A. Duvivier. [8] J.Dupré - l'heure de la traite, gr. par D.Mordant. Loose as issued, kept in an original cloth portfolio with gilt decoration and lettering. The portfolio is numbered 351 on the name of Mr. Houtstont. Some unobtrusive stains, a fine copy. Very rare annual report of the ''Société Française des Amis des Arts'' The society was founded in 1885. Its main aim was to promote French art and especially the official French ( Parisian) fine arts Salon. Each year they organised a lottery among their members ( in 1888 they numbered ca. 650). The Society acquired at the 1888 Salon 87 works of art which were put up for a raffle among their members. This publication gives a complete list of its members and a detailed report of the result of the lotery. Printed in a resticted number of copies. Among the patrons we find C. Bouguereau , Raymond Poincaré , Baron de Rothschild, Victorien Sardou, Ed. Détaillé. (* the French National Library has only similar reports for the year 1885 -> 1895 ), it lacks all later publications). The year 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1903 are nowhere to be found ( Worldcat July 2019). If you order all the available 8 years ( 1888, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1907, 1909 and 1910) the total price would be 3000 Euro.‎

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