Live auction - Lot 113
[French - Copperplate]
"Sapho".
C. 1777
Hammer price: €
80
€ 80 / 120
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Lot description
Copperplate, 8,5 x 4,6 cm (image), 14,0 x 9,5 cm (plate).
Plate without the artists' names. Bust portrait seen in three-quarter profile from the left. Under the medallion, a bas-relief with two putti playing the lyre. This engraving was published i.a. as front. of the "Poésies de Sapho..." by Billardon de Sauvigny (Amsterdam [Paris, Cazin], 1777). Some copies of this edition have the portrait without the artists' names.
Ref. BnF (1 issue before the artists' names). - Cohen 150/151.
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