PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON (1758-1823)
Lot 165

PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON (1758-1823)

Phrosine et Mélidore

Closed10 December 2019

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PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON (1758-1823)
Phrosine et Mélidore
etching with engraving, circa 1797, on wove paper, without watermark, a fine proof impression of the third state (of six), before letters but with the additional burin work (probably by Barthélémy Roger), with margins and deckle edges on three sides, trimmed on or just inside the platemark at right but retaining a wide blank border outside the subject, an unobtrusive flattened horizontal fold across the upper sheet, generally in good condition
Image 211 x 146 mm., Sheet 366 x 262 mm.

François Heugel (1922-2010), Paris (Lugt 3373); possibly his sale, Girard & Ader, Paris, 17 December 1951.
Paul Prouté (1887-1981), Paris (Lugt 2103c).
With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris.
Acquired from the above on 16 October 2010.

Specialist note

This etching was created as an illustration for the poem Phrosine et Mélidore by Pierre-Joseph Bernard (1708-1775), published in his collected Oeuvres (Didot, Paris, 1797). The present impression is a proof before the published state.