Catálogo provisorio da Galeria Nacional de Pintura esistente na Academia Real das Bellas Artes de Lisboa. Edição Official.

Lisbon, Typ. Universal de Thomaz Quintino Antunes, for Academia Real das Bellas Artes, 1868.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original green printed boards. Wood engraved Portuguese royal arms on front cover and title page. Typographical borders on front and rear covers. In fine condition. From the library of the Counts and Marquesses of Rio Maior, with ink manuscript presentation inscription on front cover. viii, 70 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION. The preliminary leaves consist of rules of operation of the Nacional Picture Gallery. The Marquês de Sousa Holstein (Paris, 1838-Lisbon, 1878) provides an "Advertencia" (pp. [1]-4), and an introduction (pp. 5-19). In addition to the most important Portuguese artists, some of world-class talent but largely unknown outside of Portugal, there are listed works by Jan Brueghel (without specifying if the elder or the younger), Cagliari, Luca Giordano, Hans Holbein, Michaelangelo, Jean Pillement, Poussin, Rafael, Rembrandt and others.Provenance: The Casa da Anunciada library of the counts and marquees of Rio Maior was one of the best private libraries ever formed in Portugal. It was dispersed for the most part not long after the April 1974 Portuguese revolution.*** Bibliografia artística portuguesa … magnifica biblioteca reunida pelo Dr. Luiz Xavier da Costa 681. For the 1.º Marquês de Spisa Holstein, see Innocêncio IX, 273; Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 876.