![Cascade du Bousseès, Val de Gerret [Waterfall of Bousseès, Vale of Gerret] Plate 21. Piringer (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate21.jpg "Cascade du Bousseès, Val de Gerret [Waterfall of Bousseès, Vale of Gerret] Plate 21. Piringer (engraver).")
![Établissement Thermal d'Eaux-Bonnes [Thermal Spa of Eaux-Bonnes] Plate 10. Piringer (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate10.jpg "Établissement Thermal d'Eaux-Bonnes [Thermal Spa of Eaux-Bonnes] Plate 10. Piringer (engraver).")
![Château de Lagarde, Canton de Mirepoix [Lagarde Castle, Canton of Mirepoix] Plate 60. F. Salathé (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate60.jpg "Château de Lagarde, Canton de Mirepoix [Lagarde Castle, Canton of Mirepoix] Plate 60. F. Salathé (engraver).")
![Établissement Thermal d'Ussat près Tarascon (Arieège) [Thermal Spa of Ussat near Tarascon (Ariege)] Plate 56. F. Salathé (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate56.jpg "Établissement Thermal d'Ussat près Tarascon (Arieège) [Thermal Spa of Ussat near Tarascon (Ariege)] Plate 56. F. Salathé (engraver).")
![Vue de Cauteretz [View of Cauteretz] Plate 17. Piringer (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate17.jpg "Vue de Cauteretz [View of Cauteretz] Plate 17. Piringer (engraver).")
![Bagnères de Bigorre, Hautes Pyrénées [Town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Pyrenees] Plate 37. F. Salathé (engraver).](https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/melling-plate37.jpg "Bagnères de Bigorre, Hautes Pyrénées [Town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Pyrenees] Plate 37. F. Salathé (engraver).")
Description
Antoine Ignace (Anton Ignaz) Melling was a German-born painter, draftsman, and architect active in France. Born to a family of artists, he was a pupil of his uncle, Joseph Melling, and at age 19 accompanied a diplomatic delegation to Italy, Egypt and finally Constantinople, where he settled and spent 18 years as Imperial Architect in the Ottoman court. Arriving in Paris in 1803, he published a collection of prints, Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphor (1809-19), which led to his appointment as landscape painter to the Empress Josephine. He later served as a painter in the court of Louis XVIII. Melling exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1804 to 1824, winning a medal in 1810. In 1821, the French government commissioned a series of landscapes published as a series of aquatints in Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées (1826-30). Melling was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1825. Today, his drawings, prints and watercolors are in prominent French museums, including the Louvre and Versailles.
Benedikt Piringer was a German artist. Friedrich Salathé was a Swiss painter and draftsman.
Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall toning, wear, soft creases. Margins with various minor scattered short tears, foxing, chipped edges, which can be matted out when framed.
References:
“Antoine Ignace Melling.” Wikipedia. 19 May 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Ignace_Melling (21 May 2009).
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 6 p. 49.
Brunet, Jacques-Charles. Manuel du Libraire et de l’Amateur de Livres. Berlin: Josef Altmann, 1922 (reprint). III 1591-92.
Graesse, Jean George Théodore. Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique 1-8.Milan & New York: Görlich, 1950. IV 473.
