Live auction - Lot 614
Lot description
14 x 9,5 cm, picture: 8,5 x 4,6 cm.
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 frontisp. 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.