Jean-Claude Richard, abate di Saint-Non (1727-1791), after JH Fragonard - Centauro Chirone insegna la cetra ad Achille e La Venditrice di Amorini

2 impressions on a single sheet, the only copperplate print on laid paper with watermark, signed and dated, good imprinting of the plate.

Support: Laid paper and filoni, watermark "mount surmounted by a cross" and letters "S" and "I";
Status: Excellent inking in black and white, good condition with slight traces of foxing and browning as shown in the photo;

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Fragonard Jean Honoré (1732/ 1806): designer
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 of the Griffoni. 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 collection’s composition varies from copy to copy — it is fairly complete with all the suites, thus providing an overview of the masterpieces kept in Rome, Naples, Bologna and Venice. It is a collection particularly important for the history of engraving: as Gordon Ray states, “nowhere else can one find so many of those who could be called incunabula in aquatint, dated between the late 1760s and 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, cols. 930-931. Folio (490 x 319 mm). First edition, first printing, without the mention "La veuve Lavoye" on the plates. 295 engraved plates of various formats, including: collection of views, landscapes, ancient fragments and historical subjects of the Griffoni (1 title and 40 plates); Selected fragments from the paintings and artworks most interesting of 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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