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PHILOSTRATUS; et al. Les Images ou Tableaux de Platte Peinture des Deux Philostrates Grecs Sophistes et les Statues de Callistrate. French translation and commentary by Blaise de Vigenère with epigrams by Thomas Artus, Sieur d'Embry. 67 three-quarter-page illustrations of mythological subjects engraved by Leonard Gaultier, Thomas de Leu, and Jaspar Isaac after Antoine Caron. [18], 921, [49] pages, including engraved title and final blank. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 429x276 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, spine darkened, covers soiled, front joint cracked, cords intact; scattered marginal spotting, small repaired wormhole in blank lower margin of several leaves toward beginning, minor dampstaining along top edges in middle of volume, insignificant worming in blank lower margins toward end; linen folding case. wide-margined copy. Paris: Matthieu Guillemot, 1637
Descriptions by Philostratus the Elder of 65 pictures in a possibly imaginary Neapolitan collection, the most extensive early text on painting in classical antiquity, together with similar writings by Philostratus the Younger and Callistratus. The Greek original versions date from the 3rd century A.D.; Vigenère's translation was first published in 1578. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 23 and Praz, page 453 cite 1614 and 1615 editions; Sandys I, 336.
