PICART, BERNARD.

One of the most striking illustrated books of the 18th-century. “Bernard Picart was the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century, an age during which the designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters. He worked for the most part in the fading baroque tradition, but there elements in his immense production which herald the new age.” Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book (1986) p.7. Contained in Volume I, Picart’s plates present an invaluable pictorial record of Jewish life in 18th-century Netherlands.