SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. 



The Great Masters in the 

 Louvre Gallery. 



Illuslralmg the Fmcsl Examples of the Masters of Painting from the Fourteenth to 



Ihc Nineteenth Century. 



THE PUBLISHERS invite the attention of all Bibliophiles, Collectors, 

 Art Museums, and Lovers or Students of Art and its History to a 

 unique and sumptuous work entitled The Great Masters in the Louvre 

 Gallery. 



The plan of the work is to place before the subscriber a complete re- 

 view of the development of the Art of Painting from its earliest inception 

 to the nineteenth century, embracing all schools, from the primitive 

 Italians to the "men of 1830." 



There are more masterpieces contained in the Louvre than in any other 

 of the great galleries of Europe, and a large number of them once formed 

 part ofthe art treasures of the French kings, notably of Francis I, Henry 

 IV, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. 



PERFECTION IN BLACK AND COLORS. 



After several years of preparation, the publishers take pleasure in an- 

 nouncing that they are now ready to offer this great work to all who are in- 

 terested in art and its development. The stupendous task they have under- 

 taken and the immense outlay involved can not well be estimated, and the 

 successful termination of their labors may be justly considered as one of 

 the crowning artistic achievements of the century now drawing to its close. 



The house of Goupil & Co., of Paris, is responsible for all the repro- 

 ductions, which are executed ^by them in Paris; and the perfection to 

 which they have attained in their various processes of photogravure, both 

 in black and in colors, is so well known to all lovers of art that it need 

 not be insisted upon here. 



CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION, EDITION DE GRAND LUXE. 



This edition will be strictly limited to 2 so copies, of which 200 will 

 be in English and numbered from i to 200. The remaining 50, in French, 

 will be numbered in Roman numerals from I to L. 



The work will be issued in twelve divisions or sections, each to con- 

 tain twenty-four pages of text, illustrated with twelve photogravures in 

 varied tints; six full-page India-proof photogravures, and four full-page 

 typogravures, mounted, all of which will likewise be in tints. Also tu'o 

 hand-finished water-color facsimiles, mounted and matted for framing. 



Two specially designed Portfolios, made to contain six sections each, 

 will be delivered with everv set. 



The price of each section will be $so.oo. 



Subscriptions will be accepted only for the complete work. 



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