[MANUSCRIT]. FÉLIBIEN (André). Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes. In French, illustrated manuscript on paper With 4 ink and wash drawings, p. 190, 192, 194, 195. France, 18th century. Dimensions : 295 x 200 mm 440 pp. preceded by 2 ff. of endpapers + tables (7 ff), followed by 3 ff. of paper endpapers, very regular cursive handwriting. Bound in half vellum, smooth spine, title-piece: "Lives of painters", boards covered with glue paper, green-tinted parchment corners, marbled edges. Good condition. Stains to first 10 leaves. Familiar with Fouquet, Poussin and Colbert, André Félibien (1619-1695) was architect and later historiographer to the king. Appointed to the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres, secretary to the Académie royale d'architecture and curator of the cabinet des antiquités at the Palais Brion, his career gave him a privileged view of the men who shaped classicism. Félibien composed his Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes, the first volume of which appeared in 1666 (Paris, Le Petit, 1666) and was subsequently completed over more than fifty years. The first collective edition, known as the Seconde édition, appeared in 1685. The Cinquième partie, with Entretiens IX and X, was published again by Mabre-Cramoisy and completed on February 17, 1688. The present manuscript contains references to a printed edition: "Page 633 de l'imprimé".