Title Page: Oval Design from the Church of San Michele de Bosco, Bologna

1772

Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non after Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Carlo Cignani

Associated Names
Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Artist, French, 1727 - 1791

Carlo Cignani

Artist After, Italian, 1628 - 1719

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist After, French, 1732 - 1806

This is a drawing of a decorative cartouche framed by two cherubs. The drawing features a large oval cartouche at the center, inscribed with elegant cursive script. Two cherubs flank the cartouche on either side, each pulling back draped fabric as if unveiling the inscription. The cherubs are drawn with classical anatomical proportions and portrayed in a soft, sketch-like style with subtle shading. The monochrome palette enhances the sense of an aged illustration.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1510

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cayeux 1963, no. 169

Artwork history & notes

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: no. 169.

Inscriptions

C: Fragment / choisis dans les Peintures / et les Tableaux les plus / interresans des Palais / et des Eglises de / l'Italie / Troisieme Suite / Bolog *ne; lLp: fragonard del.; lLp:Carlo Cignani / Eglise de St Michel / in bosco / a Bologne.; lCp: A Par is ches Jean Rue St Jean de Beauvais, No.20

Wikidata ID

Q65510065

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