Lot 217
  • 217

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Estimate
4,500 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Augustin de Saint-Aubin
  • Au moins soyez discret; and Comptez sur mes Sermens
Etchings with engraving, 1789, two plates, proofs before title and address, fine impressions, with narrow margins, very slight paper discoloration, otherwise in good condition; with four others after the same; with after Antoine Watteau, Les agreements de l'ete, etching with engraving, with three plates by and after the same, narrow to small margins, slight paper discoloration, occasional fox marks; with a collection of 31 works after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin by Lepicie, LeBas, Surugue, Chevillet and various others; and another after Canot by LeBas

Provenance

Six plates after Chardin with various collector's marks: ex coll. C. Bayard (L. 496), J. Michelin (L. 1490), Leroy-Latteux (L. 1744), H. J. Thomas (L. 1378); and another unidentified (L. 181a)

Condition

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