64 - [Nice]. BARBERI.

[Nice]. BARBERI. Costumes of the City of Nice. Maritime. Nice, Société typographique and published by the author, 1831. Folio. (1 plate missing; slight pinholes on some plates, particularly the introductory plate; tears on the spine and edges of the folder; some soiling.) Loose sheets: 9 large lithographs in black, delicately hand-colored. In a blue folder printed by the publisher. A rare series of Nice costumes, lithographed by Emile Desmaisons based on drawings by Paul-Emile Barberi and delicately colored in watercolor. The plates were lithographed in Paris by Desmaisons and signed with his name within the image. Barberi (1775–1847), a painter and architect from Rome, settled in Nice in 1817, where he directed the municipal school of drawing. A large view of the Bay of Nice, lithographed in black on the front cover of the folder. Fishmongers and fishermen in festive attire. Fishmongers hawking anchovies in the street. Shepherds selling curdled milk and cheese. Shepherds and peasant women selling milk. Peasant women at the market in winter. A peasant woman and a young garbage collector carrying their provisions. Charcoal burners. Pine nut sellers. Peasants in festive attire returning from Palm Sunday Mass. Colas, I, 214. Lipperheide, 1197.