Jean-Félix Watin's treatise has been published in more than one dozen editions and in several reprints and translations. L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, the main title, tends to remain constant in the French editions, although the subtitle varies and often indicates changes in content.
Date | Publication | Notes and Sources |
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1733 | Père Filippo Bonanni, Traité des vernis (Paris). | Watin mentions these three books as existing sources of poor information. The first two were first published several decades earlier. |
1766 | Secrets concernant les arts et métiers (Brussels). | |
1771 | Delormois, Manuel de vernisseur (Paris). | |
28 March 1772 | Pierre-François Mitouard read the prospectus of L'Art de faire et d'employer le vernis ou L'Art du vernisseur at the Paris Academy of Sciences. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Jean-Charles Trudaine de Montigny are assigned to examine it. | Source: Procès-verbaux de l'Académie des Sciences 91. |
1772 | Watin, L'Art de faire et d'employer le vernis (Paris). | |
6 December 1772 | Syndics of the Company of Architects give a favorable account of Watin's book | Source: Watin, Supplément. |
January 1773 | Prospectus for the second edition of L'Art de faire et employer le vernis is issued. | Source: Watin, Supplément, 1 |
15 March, or 18 May 1773 | Watin, L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur (Paris: Grangé, Durand, Watin). | Source: L'Art de faire et employer le vernis, 2d ed. Watin gives both dates. |
18 June 1773 | Certification of Mauclerc's book by the Académie de Saint-Luc et Communauté des Peintres | Source: Mauclerc |
26 July 1773 | Mauclerc, Traité des couleurs et vernis (Paris). | Source: BNF catalog |
28 August 1773 | Date of Gautier d'Agoty's letter to Watin | Source: Watin, Supplément. |
7 September 1773 | Approval of the Supplément by Macquer. | Source: Watin, Supplément. |
27 September 1773 | Date of extract from the Avant Coureur. | Source: Watin, Supplément. |
September / October 1773 | Watin, Supplément à "L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur", servant de réponse à la réfutation du sieur M. . . ([Paris]). | Source: BNF catalog. |
1 November 1773 | Projected date for publication of an illustrated folio edition of Watin. | Source: Watin, "Avis à MM. Les Souscripteurs de l'In Folio de l'Art du Peintre, Doreur, Vernisseur. . . ” Supplément, 77–78. |
1774 | Watin, L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, 2d ed. (Paris). | |
1774 | Watin, Der Staffirmaler, oder, Die Kunst anzustreichn, zu vergoldern und zu lackiren (Leipzig). | First German translation. |
1776 | Watin, 3d ed. (Paris). | |
7 February 1776 | Mitouard presents L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur at the Paris Academy of Science Balthazar-Georges Sage and Nicolas Desmarest are named to examine it. (Mathieu Tillet replaced Desmaret in July 1777.) | Source: Procès-verbaux de l'Académie des Sciences 95. |
1777 | Watin, Extrait de la troisième édition de "L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur" du sieur Watin. . . (Paris). | A 2-page Prospectus for the third edition. Source: BNF catalog. |
23 August 1777 | Tillet and Sage present report to the Paris Academy regarding L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur. | Source: AdS pochette (23 August 1777). |
1778 | Watin, L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur "Nouvelle édition" (Lièges). | A 4th edition? |
1779 | Placide-Auguste Le Pileur d'Apligny, Traité des couleurs matérielles, et de la manière de colorer relativement aux différens arts et métiers (Paris). | Le Pileur d'Apligny complains (p. xi) that Watin's information is no better than that in earlier works. |
1781 | Watin, Extrait de "L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur" du sieur Watin.. (Paris). | Eight-page prospectus for a new edition. Source: BNF catalog. |
1782 | Encyclopédie méthodique: Arts et métiers méchaniques. | Watin's treatise is included s.v. Peinture," 6:239–57 (plus plates?). |
1785 | Watin, 4th edition (Paris). | Issued/sold by Watin. |
1787 | Watin, 4th edition (Paris). | Issued/sold by Desoer |
1793 | Watin, 4th edition (Paris). | Issued/sold by Desoer. |
1802 | Watin, 5th edition (Paris: Bidault). | Issued/sold by Bidault. |
1803 | Pierre-François Tingry, Traité theorique et practique sur l'art de faire et d'appliquer les vernis (Geneva). | Based on and incorporating Watin's book. |
1804 | Tingry, The Painter and Varnisher's Guide (London). | English translation of Tingry. |
1808 | Watin, 6th edition (Paris). | Issued/sold by Belin. |
1815 | Watin, 7th edition (Paris). | Issued/sold by Belin. |
1819 | Watin, 8th edition (Paris). | |
1823 | Watin, 8th edition (Lyon). | |
1823 | Watin, 9th edition (Paris). | The title page notes that the work has been revised and augmented by Charles Bourgeois. |
1828 | Watin, 10th edition (Paris). | |
1829 | Tingry, Manuale dell'inverniciatore o sia l'arte d'inverniciare, indorare, stemperare i colori (Milan). | Italian translation of Tingry, modernized by the chemist Antonio Bayer. |
1831 | Tingry, The Painter's and Colourmen's Complete Guide (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart). | American edition of Tingry. |
1851 | Watin, 11th edition (Paris). | The title page notes that the work has been revised and augmented by Firmin Bourgeois. Part of Encyclopédie Roret. |
1864 | Watin, 12th edition (Paris). | Encyclopédie Roret. |
1898 | Watin, 13th edition (Paris). | Encyclopédie Roret. |
1906 | Watin, 14th edition (Paris). | Encyclopédie Roret. |
1975-77 | Watin, reprint of Liège edition of 1778 (Paris). |