Beschreibung
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) Quatre Bacchanales, ou Jeux de satyres (Vier Bacchanalien oder Satyrspiele). 1763. Radierungen. Jeweils 210 x 145. Baudicour 6-9; I.F.F. 2-5. Sehr schöne und frische Abzüge, die Beschriftungen auf Pl. 1 nicht eingefärbt (dennoch wahrnehmbar), vor den Nummern. Kleine Ränder von 3 bis 4 mm. "The date of 1763 on the first composition of this series, a bas-relief of two satyrs with hands joined to support a nymph, indicates that this group of four etchings by Fragonard was done in Paris, two years after he returned from Italy accompanied by Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non. The designs of the reliefs reflect the artist's study of Roman antiquities in Italy, and the first etching makes specific reference to an identifiable source, a marble bas-relief then in the Villa Mattei...". (V. Carlson, Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, S. 152).
28
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) Quatre Bacchanales, ou Jeux de satyres (Vier Bacchanalien oder Satyrspiele). 1763. Radierungen. Jeweils 210 x 145. Baudicour 6-9; I.F.F. 2-5. Sehr schöne und frische Abzüge, die Beschriftungen auf Pl. 1 nicht eingefärbt (dennoch wahrnehmbar), vor den Nummern. Kleine Ränder von 3 bis 4 mm. "The date of 1763 on the first composition of this series, a bas-relief of two satyrs with hands joined to support a nymph, indicates that this group of four etchings by Fragonard was done in Paris, two years after he returned from Italy accompanied by Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non. The designs of the reliefs reflect the artist's study of Roman antiquities in Italy, and the first etching makes specific reference to an identifiable source, a marble bas-relief then in the Villa Mattei...". (V. Carlson, Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, S. 152).
