Live Auction 2773A Palladian Villa By Michael S. Smith
A PAIR OF FRENCH LITHOGRAPHS OF 'LA VERTU DE LUCRCE' AND 'CONSTANCE DE CORIOLAN'
Lot 184

A PAIR OF FRENCH LITHOGRAPHS OF 'LA VERTU DE LUCRCE' AND 'CONSTANCE DE CORIOLAN'

AFTER JEAN-FRANCOIS JANINET, 19TH CENTURY

Closed24 April 2013

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A PAIR OF FRENCH LITHOGRAPHS OF 'LA VERTU DE LUCRCE' AND 'CONSTANCE DE CORIOLAN'
AFTER JEAN-FRANCOIS JANINET, 19TH CENTURY
Each with a frieze of classical figures in a border of sunflowers, mounted on cream with chain border, in a giltwood moulded frame with stiff-leaf and beaded decoration, the lithograph inscribed in the bottom right corner 'Janinet sculp. 1789'
15½ x 16½ in. (39.5 x 67 cm.) (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 January 2008, lot 204.

Specialist note

These reliefs evoke Roman virtues with one depicting Lucretia; and the other recalling the steadfastness of the legendary Roman hero Coriolanus on his departure from Rome. They were invented by Jean Guillaume Moitte (1746-1810) in 1789 , and engraved in 1795 by Jean-François Janinet (d.1810) (see G. Gramaccini, Jean-Guillaume Moitte, Berlin vol. II , 1993 fig 242). A pair of bas-reliefs from the same series by Janinet, was sold anonymously, Christie's, Paris, 17 October 2007, lot 12.