[Original Sepia Ink Drawing, Signed]

Moreau le Jeune, Jean Michel

Verlag: [Paris], 1812

Beschreibung

Original sepia ink drawing on paper, image size 14 x 9 cm (including caption). Matted and framed under glass. An original drawing for the four volume edition of LES MÉTAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE, published in Paris by Gay and Guestard over a span of years beginning in 1806. The drawing is signed and dated in ink at the lower edge of the image; it is not, however, captioned. See Ray for an account of a "puzzling book [which] was obviously intended to be an edition of some pretensions. The publishers secured a new translation [by M.G.T. Villenave] secured Didot as their printer, and promised '144 engravings, the designs for which have been entrusted to M. Le Barbier, Monsiau and Moreau.' The edition appears to have foundered, and its fourth volume appeared with some of the plates by lesser artists, dated 1820-1821." Provenance: Pourtale`s collection, Paris; sale, Paris, May 1880; Louis Roederer, Rheims; bought in 1923 by the Rosenbach Company from the Olry- Roederer family in Paris; Black Sun Books (offered as "Achille a Saysos"). An album of 107 drawings for the edition is in the Morgan Library, a gift from Mrs. George Blumenthal. Ray, ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 96. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCLIT88642

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Original Sepia Ink Drawing, Signed]

Verlag: [Paris]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1812