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Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non after Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Sebastiano Ricci

Details from "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Pool at Bethesda", 1774

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series Title

Fragments choisis

Medium

etching (counterproof) reworked in brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18.6 x 13.1 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Cayeux 1963, no. 292

Accession Number

1996.128.39

Artists / Makers

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (artist) French, 1727 - 1791

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist after) French, 1732 - 1806

Sebastiano Ricci (artist after) Venetian, 1659 - 1734

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Inscription

center left in pen and brown ink: Sebastien Rizzi / cabinet de Smith a venise.; lower right in pen and brown ink: fragonard; upper center verso in pen and brown ink: celle ci est la mesure de la largeur / pour toutes

Provenance

(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased by Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Galerie Cailleux
Humann Foundation, Christian, The
Humann, Christian

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1963: Cayeux Jean de. "Introduction au catalogue critique des griffonis de Saint-Non." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1963: pp. 297-384. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964. Separately published. Paris Librairie Armand Colin, 1964.

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 79, fig. 6.