Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non
Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non worked in the second half of the eighteenth century, and the prints grouped here belong to the aquatint tradition he helped shape in France, with brown ink giving the surfaces their warm tone. The subjects are intimate and mythological: pairs of women with children, and repeated appearances of Venus and Cupid in tender, small-scale compositions. This archive holds three aquatints in brown ink, dated by the Met to 1766, though some sheets are impressions up to that year rather than unique early states. Together they offer a compact view of his printmaking in a single technique and a single year.
3 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
