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

2 Prints on a single sheet, an intaglio print on laid paper with watermark, signed and dated, good impression of the plate.

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

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Fragonard Jean Honoré (1732/1806): draftsman
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 Griffonis. 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 kept in Rome, Naples, Bologna, and Venice. This is a collection particularly important for the history of engraving: as Gordon Ray states, "there are no other places where so many of those who could be called incunabula in aquatint, dating from the end of the 1760s to the beginning of the 1770s, can be found 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 sizes, including: collection of views, landscapes, ancient fragments and historical subjects of Griffoni (1 title and 40 plates); Fragments selected from among the most interesting paintings 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 suite of Naples (1 title and 47 plates); Various subjects (37 plates).
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