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 Engravings on a single sheet, intaglio print on laid handmade paper with watermark, signed and dated, good plate imprinting.

Support: laid handmade paper and filaments, watermark "mount crowned by a cross" and letters "S" and "I";
Condition: Excellent inking in black and white, good conservation with slight traces of foxing and browning as shown in the photo;

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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 of the Grifoni. 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 fairly complete with all the suites, thus providing an overview of the masterpieces preserved in Rome, Naples, Bologna, and Venice. This is a collection particularly important for the history of engraving: as Gordon Ray states, "nowhere else are there so many of those who could be called incunables in aquatint, datable 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 etched plates of various formats, including: collection of views, landscapes, ancient fragments, and historical subjects of the Grifoni (1 title and 40 plates); Selected fragments from the most interesting paintings and sculptures 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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