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GONNELLI
CASA D’ASTE
294
689.
Saint-Non Jean Claude Richard de
Recueil de Griffonis, de Vues, Paysages, fragments antiques
et Sujets historiques, gravés tant a’ l’eau-forte qu’au lavis
par l’abbe’ de saint-non d’apres differents maitres des ecoles
italiennes and de l’ecole francaise.
[Paris]: S.n., [1781].
In-folio grande (mm 510x325). Frontespizio inciso
e 156 tavole con 288 soggetti incisi all’acquaforte o
all’acquatinta. Legatura in mezza pelle dei primi anni del
sec. XIX. Dorso con tassello di pelle dorata. Esemplare
con lievi mende sul solo margine bianco del frontespizio
e di una tavola. Strappetto marginale alla XXXVI tavola
non numerata. Edizione originale (la seconda porta
l’indirizzo “chez la veuve La Voye”) di questa raccolta di
incisioni (molte delle quali d’apres Fragonard e Hubert
Robert). La composizione degli esemplari varia.
Cohen - De Ricci, 930-931«Curieuse reunion d’oeuvres a’
l’eau-forte du graveur-amateur; un grand nombre de planches
sont d’apres Fragonard et Hubert-Robert. La composition
des exemplaires varie». Ray, French, 68 «This comprehensive
collection of etchings and aquatints by Saint-Non after various
artists differs in makeup from copy to copy. This copy, wich has
287 plates on 153 leaves, is more inclusive than most». Franklin,
Catalogue Six, 1973, 75 «This is the work Sarah Prideaux was
able to see, and described as
a most interesting book and particularly
important for the study of early aquatints
. With Saint-Non one does
not know where to begin - this collections opens with a fine
and famous Group of early etchings [of Rome] from 1756,
after Le Prince. The richness of the Recueil de Griffonis is in
its range and size, for Saint-Non is present here as the founder
of aquatint with Le Prince, and some of the plates go back to
the mid-seventeen-sixities, very soon after his return from Italy.
Large aquatints here, of ruins and farms and street scenes after
Robert ... There is a remarkable semi-caricature after Tiepolo,
large oval plates after Robert and a beautiful farmyard scene of
the same artist. The composition of the volume varies, and this
copy has more generous gathering than most, with 287 plates
on 153 leaves».
€ 4000