Lot Essay
A counterproof after Liss's Vision of Saint Jerome in San Nicolò da Tolentino, Venice, drawn in preparation for an etching that the artist made in 1761 in Venice. The Abbé de Saint-Non later copied this. A copy in reverse after another picture by Johann Liss, The Sacrifice of Isaac, is in the British Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art, Johann Liss, no. A39, illustrated