Pocket guide to the pictures exhibited in the Musée Napoléon. The collection was largely composed of paintings looted by Napoleon; the museum was dissolved after Waterloo and and attempts were made to return the pictures to their rightful owners.

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GARGIULO, Raffaele.

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Second, revised and enlarged edition (first 1831), illustrated with sixteen handsome engraved plates.

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MICHETTI, Charles.

Catalogue des estampes des plus grands maitres, tableaux, bagues, livres, vases, idoles, &. qui composent la collection de Mr. Charles Michetti.

First edition. Description of the cabinet assembled by Charles Michetti in Vienna. Michetti stresses in his introduction that his collection was put together not for financial gain but because he liked the look of the pieces and appreciated their artistic merit. The bulk of the collection is made up of prints but there are also paintings, Etruscan vases, jewellery, a microscope from England, and a collection of books, particularly strong in the arts.

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