Arthur Joe HESELTINE (1859 - 1930) - Lot 14

Arthur Joe HESELTINE (1859 - 1930) "Fontainebleau and its environs". Copy enriched with drawings, photos and comments, including the list of people to whom this collection was presented, the list of plates: etchings on Fontainebleau, Nemours, Gretz/Loing, Montigny, Marlotte and its surroundings, artists' photographs, engraving by J.M. Cazin, 4 plates engraved by S.J.Guthrie and dedicated to Sr J. Guthrie, J.Ch.Cazin, E. Heseltine, O'Conor. Guthrie, J.Ch.Cazin, E. Heseltine, O'Conor. Approx. 65 plates in all, many with title and or handwritten annotation, with stains, foxing, on buff-stained leaves. Binding with title (stains and scuffs). H. 29 cm - W. 39cm SC After studying art in England, Arthur Joe Heseltine arrived in Paris in 1873 as a pupil of Carolus Duran. In 1883, he settled in Marlotte with his wife Célie-Caroline (daughter of sculptor and lithographer Louis Guillet), whose brother-in-law Jean Charles Cazin founded the Société des Beax-Arts with Arthur Joe and John Postle Heseltine (his brother, also an artist). His local reputation was considerable.