Leonardo da Vinci - Traité de la Peinture - 1796

I present to you at auction an authentic and highly coveted masterpiece: 'The Treatise on Painting' by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the genius among geniuses of the Renaissance.

Our book is illustrated with 34 engraved plates, 5 of which are fold-outs, and approximately 20 in-text engravings.

Among the paintings, the magnificent portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the most famous painting in history, 'La Gioconda' or 'Mona Lisa', which is kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris, stand out.

Win this legendary book and open a door to the study of Leonardo. Within these pages, he is not a distant theorist, but the most luminous mind of the Renaissance thinking aloud. Leonardo doesn't tell you what to paint; he teaches you to see. To see how light caresses a cheek, how shadow gives weight to a body, how a gesture reveals a soul. After reading it, the world—and your own painting—will never be the same.

This treatise is a direct conversation with Leonardo, without intermediaries or myths. Here is the artist observing clouds, muscles, folds, and smiles with the same scientific devotion. Each paragraph is a spark: an idea that ignites another, an intuition that remains radical five centuries later. It does not age because nature does not age, and Leonardo writes from it.

If you paint, draw, or simply love art, this book is a compass. It doesn't promise easy formulas; it demands your attention, rigor, and passion. In return, it offers you something much more valuable: judgment, depth, and a trained eye to distinguish what is alive from what is merely beautiful.

And there's more: owning this book is like having Leonardo in your study. Opening it before work, savoring it, returning to it over the years… It is a work that grows with you. Each re-reading reveals a truth you weren't ready to understand before.

It's not a luxury, it's not a whim: it's an investment in your look.

Win it. Read it slowly. Let it act.

Leonardo still has much to teach you.

Year of publication: Paris 1796

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SIZE AND PAGINATION: Dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Pagination: Frontispiece with a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci + Title Page + LIX + [1pp] + 333pp + [3pp]. COMPLETE WORK

ORIGINAL CONDITION: 18th-century binding in full marbled leather, in good condition with some scuffs, as shown in the photos. The flat spine is decorated with gold motifs inspired by plant designs, and the headband is in red morocco with the title in gold lettering.

The interior of the book is in good condition, as shown in the photos, and it is illustrated with 34 engraved plates, 5 of which are fold-outs, and about 20 in-text engravings. A good and desirable copy (last year, a copy inferior to ours was auctioned in London at Sotheby's for 1,651 British pounds).

LEONARDO DA VINCI: 'The Treatise on Painting'. Don't miss out.
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