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ETIENNE FESSARD (1714-1777) AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
Lot 120

ETIENNE FESSARD (1714-1777) AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732-1806)

Vue d'un caveau découvert à Pompeii près du Vesuve

Closed28 January 2021

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ETIENNE FESSARD (1714-1777) AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
Vue d'un caveau découvert à Pompeii près du Vesuve
etching, circa 1774-77, on laid paper, with an AUVERGNE watermark, a good impression of this rare print
Plate 184 x 242 mm.
Sheet 195 x 259 mm.

Erhard Oskar Kaps (1915-2007), Leipzig (Lugt 3549).
Bassenge, Berlin, 4 December 2000, lot 6911.
Acquired at the above sale.

Specialist note

Fragonard's drawing of this subject, in the same direction, is at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lyon (inv. no. 429). Fragonard visited Pompeii on 6 May 1774 and the incident of their party finding a skeleton in the basement of a building is described in some detail in Bergeret's Journal Inédit D'un Voyage En Italie, 1773-1774. (See Rosenberg, p. 394).

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