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SAINT-NON, JEAN-CLAUDE RICHARD, ABBÉ DE. 1727-1791. Recueil de Griffonis de vues, paysages, fragments antiques et sujets historiques. Paris c.1780. image 7
Lot 193

SAINT-NON, JEAN-CLAUDE RICHARD, ABBÉ DE. 1727-1791.
Recueil de Griffonis de vues, paysages, fragments antiques et sujets historiques. Paris: c.1780.

15 October 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$8,000 - US$12,000

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SAINT-NON, JEAN-CLAUDE RICHARD, ABBÉ DE. 1727-1791.

Recueil de Griffonis de vues, paysages, fragments antiques et sujets historiques. Paris: c.1780. Folio (502 x 328 mm). 157 engraved leaves, containing 295 subjects, by Saint-Non after Fragonard, Monnet, Rembrandt, Hubert Robert, Le Prince, and others; additional letterpress advertisement leaf inserted at front. Contemporary red straight grain morocco, expertly rebacked to style, custom morocco-backed box.
Provenance: Purchased from Berès (pencil notation).

SAINT-NON'S EPIC COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS, "nowhere else are so many of what might be called aquatint incunables, dating as they do from the late 1760s and early 1770s, to be found between two covers" (Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914, p 68). Copies appear with varying plate counts and configurations. Cohen-De Ricci 930-931.

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