four images (clockwise from top left): tapering column flanked by two Egyptian figures, topped with egg-shaped element with face, woman wearing draped garment standing behind and assisting a youth wearing draperies playing two horns, basin supported by standing nude male figures, monument with eagles, two children with a boar, swag of fruit and pair of horned male heads, topped with vessels of various types; 2016.106.4.1-6 received bound together (stitched at top with string)

Fascicule I, Plate 6, from "Suite de Dix Huit Feuilles d'après l'antique...", 1763

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The Jean-Baptiste Claude Richard (also known by his title abbé Saint-Non) embodied the important role of the amateur, an patron and connoisseur of the arts as well as a practitioner in 18th-century France. He was a skilled networker, a curious, innovative printmaker, and he supported his artist friends in their projects and travels. Saint-Non executed this suite of prints in Paris in 1763, representing antique fragments and reliefs he saw during his travels in Italy from 1759 to 1761.

Most of the monuments are identified in the inscriptions by their locations in Rome. The works reflect French artists’ fascination with antiquity at the time, and the way in which these sources were transmitted to a larger public through the circulation of prints. Remarkably the suite of etchings remain as originally issued, in three groups of six deckle-edged sheets stitched together simply along the top edge.

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Title
Fascicule I, Plate 6, from "Suite de Dix Huit Feuilles d'après l'antique..."
Artist Life
1727–1791
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2016.106.4.6
Provenance
Sale, Ader, Paris, May, 19, 2016, no. 43, for 750 Euros (with buyers premium), to Bergquist; [Jim Bergquist, Newton Centre, Mass., 2016; sold to Mia]
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four images (clockwise from top left): tapering column flanked by two Egyptian figures, topped with egg-shaped element with face, woman wearing draped garment standing behind and assisting a youth wearing draperies playing two horns, basin supported by standing nude male figures, monument with eagles, two children with a boar, swag of fruit and pair of horned male heads, topped with vessels of various types; 2016.106.4.1-6 received bound together (stitched at top with string)