La cire alliée avec l'huile ou la peinture à huile-cire trouvée à Manheim par Charles Baron de Taubenheim

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Fratrel, Joseph

Publisher

• Publication

  Manheim: Académie Electorale, 1770

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1770

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    schilderkunst
  • As subject 

    schildershandboeken (vorm)
  • As subject 

    encaustiek

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    French

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Engraved frontispiece of Taubenheim’s arms.
  • Only Edition, on encaustic painting. Practiced by the Egyptians and Greeks then long abandoned, the technique mixes wax and other chemicals into paint for exceptional color stability and surface durability. Here Baron von Taubenheim describes his successful experiments. His court painter, Fratrel, provides the recipe and explains its use on large historical canvasses, miniatures and silver. In the preface, Taubenheim OFFERS FREE COPIES OF THE BOOK AND JARS OF THE OIL-WAX to every painting academy in Europe. The printed slip pasted on the title reads Le Bureau de distribution de cette Cire préparée est établi chez le sieur La Combe, Libraire, rue Christine, Faubourg S. Germain, A Paris. The exceptionally large text type — 140 mm. for 20 lines — suggests a privileged audience.

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