3 Plates from Costumes Civils et Militaires des Français INV 2014

a travers les siècles “through the centuries”

11 ¼” x 8 ¼”

Juene Dame en Costume d’été (XVII siècle) No. 75


Trimmed pages:

“Le Diplomate”

“L’Institutrice”


This are unowned plates from the residual inventory of a gallery/bookstore which operated in midtown Manhattan (New York City, New York, USA) from the 1940s-1970s. They have been in storage since the 70s.


Provenance: The Golden Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc. operated in downtown Manhattan - New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the mid 1940s, Arts, Inc. was established as a publishing house specializing in European scholarly and artistic works. In the 1950s, Arts, Inc., the parent company, expanded to create, first, the Golden Griffin Bookstore and then the Griffin Gallery, which dealt primarily with contemporary American and European artists. The Golden Griffin was known as the “Continental Bookstore” because of its stock of European titles.

 

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