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Lot 140
  • 140

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger Paris 1715 - 1790

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger
  • design for a frontispiece in honour of sir isaac newton
  • bears inscription in pen and brown ink on the verso: par M. Boucher pour l'eloge/de Newton/M cochin a fair un petit dessin sur/l'estampe and in another hand in chalk on the recto: Ce dessin de Boucher a été gravé par Cochin pour l'ouvrage ..Newton
  • pen and brown and black ink and brown and grey wash, over traces of black chalk, indented for transfer

Provenance

Charles Eggimann (L.530);
sale, Milan, Galleria Salamon-Algranti, 25 November 1985, lot 155 (as François Boucher)