Catalogs of the sales of the Demidoff collection. Reunion of the catalogs of the four sales passed from February 28 to March 10, 1870 in Paris, Bd des Italiens. "Copies on paper of Holland illustrated with 42 etchings and added prices and notes by L. Soulié" (Parisian bookseller whose stamp). One handwritten page in Soulié's hand on the history of the collection and the 19 Greuze, almost all of them fake. One vol. large 8°, 207-10 p., 42 etchings, half-chagrin with corners (spotted binding). The Demidoff collection, called in its time the San Donato collection, is one of the most famous collections of works of art of the 19th century. Constituted by Nicolas Demidoff (1773-1828) and considerably enriched by his son Anatole Demidoff (1812-1870), prince of San Donato, it was mainly preserved at the Villa San Donato, near Florence, where fourteen rooms were devoted to it. When Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff, Anatole's nephew and heir, sold the villa, the collection was dispersed in several sales. From 1860 onwards, the collection was gradually sold. The Marquis of Hertford acquired a large part of the collection and bequeathed it to Richard Wallace. The Wallace Collection, a London museum established in 1897 following Lady Wallace's gift of her husband's estate, includes 78 works from this collection. Rare document on this collection and its sale.