SAINT-NON, Jean Claude Richard, de (1727-1791). Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786. 4 volumes, 2 o . Numerous engraved plates by Claude-Augustin Duflos Le Roy, Privost, Saint-Non, et al. after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert Saint-Non, et al., Vols. 1-3 bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt, vol. 4 contemporary quarter calf (dried and worn). FIRST EDITION. As Blackmer notes, Saint-Non's Voyage "was the first work of its type to appear in France and it created a vogue", exemplified by the works of Houel, Choiseul-Gouffier, Cassas and others. Saint-Non, a gifted amateur engraver, travelled extensively in Italy, and planned this work with the collaboration of gifted friends. Cassas, Duplessi-Bertaux, Fragonard, Houel and Hubert-Robert-all contributed drawings, while Denon commissioned local artists to produce drawings of significant sites that the principal artists could not visit. Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V:55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930; Reynaud 482-484. (4)
SAINT-NON, Jean Claude Richard, de (1727-1791). Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786. 4 volumes, 2 o . Numerous engraved plates by Claude-Augustin Duflos Le Roy, Privost, Saint-Non, et al. after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert Saint-Non, et al., Vols. 1-3 bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt, vol. 4 contemporary quarter calf (dried and worn). FIRST EDITION. As Blackmer notes, Saint-Non's Voyage "was the first work of its type to appear in France and it created a vogue", exemplified by the works of Houel, Choiseul-Gouffier, Cassas and others. Saint-Non, a gifted amateur engraver, travelled extensively in Italy, and planned this work with the collaboration of gifted friends. Cassas, Duplessi-Bertaux, Fragonard, Houel and Hubert-Robert-all contributed drawings, while Denon commissioned local artists to produce drawings of significant sites that the principal artists could not visit. Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V:55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930; Reynaud 482-484. (4)
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