Jean-Claude Richard, abate di Saint-Non (1727-1791), after JH Fragonard - Centauro e Menade e Centaura con lira e giovane baccante

2 engravings on a single sheet, a copperplate print on laid paper with a watermark, signed and dated, good plate impression.

Support: laid paper with watermark "mount surmounted by a cross" and letters "S" and "I";
State: excellent black-and-white inking, good preservation with slight traces of foxing and browning as in the photos;

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Fragonard Jean Honoré (1732/1806): draughtsman
De Saint-non Richard Jean Claude (1727/1791): engraver

SAINT-NON, Jean-Claude Richard, abbot of (1727-1791).
Collection of views, landscapes, ancient fragments and historical subjects by Grifonis. Paris, undated [circa 1750/1770]. Beautiful copy with the Stroganov coat of arms.

Most of the compositions are inspired by masters of Italian and French painting, including Hubert Robert and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It may happen that the composition of the collection varies from one copy to another – it is quite complete with all the suites, thus providing an overview of the masterpieces preserved in Rome, Naples, Bologna and Venice. This is a collection of particular importance for the history of engraving: as Gordon Ray states, "no other place has so many of those who could be called aquatint incunabula, dating from the late 1760s to early 1770s, between two covers". Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book from 1700 to 1914, I, 68; Brunet, V, col. 56; Cohen-de Ricci, col. 930-931. In-folio (490 x 319 mm). First edition, first printing, without the mention "La veuve Lavoye" on the plates.

295 engraved plates of varying format, including: collection of views, landscapes, ancient fragments and historical subjects of the Grifoni (1 title and 40 plates); Fragments selected from the most interesting paintings and works in the Palaces and Churches of Italy.

First suite: Rome. (1 title and 27 plates);
Second suite: Rome. (1 title and 25 plates);
Fourth suite: Venice. (1 title and 37 plates);
Third suite: Bologna. (1 title and 39 plates);
Second suite: Naples. (1 title and 29 plates);
Second Naples suite (1 title and 47 plates);
Various subjects (37 plates).
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