(Gustave Mohler). Book of watercolors bound in half old basane with corners, spine mute. Colored paper guards. Size of the watercolors (160 mm x 235 mm). Arches paper (?) Collection of 54 views and landscapes, some portraits. Most of the landscapes are located (Saincaize, Guérigny, les Bureaux, Nohan, Crecy, Issoudun...) the portraits are signed with the monogram G. M. Beautiful watercolor of the artist's dog Rip. Binding with traces of wear. Booklet solidly bound. Gustave Mohler , painter sculptor and ceramist, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshops of Leon Cogniet and Antoine Louis Barye. He moved to Nevers in 1863 and spent his entire career there as an eclectic artist. In 1870, Gustave Mohler married Marie Hélène Robelin, granddaughter of a local scholar-collector, Jacques Gallois, who donated his collection to the city of Nevers in 1847. He was a teacher, qualified as an "animal painter", at the municipal school of arts in Nevers, alongside Édouard Pail and François Moreau de Charny. Some of his works are preserved in the Nevers Museum of Fine Arts.