Jean Jacques Flipart (1719-1782) after Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune (1715-1790)

Concours pour le prix de l’etude des têtes et de l’expression (Le Blanc 93; Portalis & Beraldi 21; IFF 126)

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Jean Jacques Flipart (1719-1782) after Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune (1715-1790)
Concours pour le prix de l’etude des têtes et de l’expression (Le Blanc 93; Portalis & Beraldi 21; IFF 126)
etching with engraving, 1763, on laid paper, watermark AUVERGNE II742 (similar to Haewood 3420), a good impression of this scarce print, second, final state (a presumably impression of the unfinished first state, in pure etching and without letters, is in the British Museum), with margins, pale mount staining, some very minor foxing, generally in good condition
P. 232 x 281 mm., S. 289 x 333 mm.

Provenance

Christie's, London, 1 July 1980, lot 204.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Elisabeth Launay, Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, Paris, 1985, No. 60, p.265-6.

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Please note this lot is sold framed.

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Lot Essay

Edmond de Goncourt saw in the model a portrait of the famous actress Mlle Clairon (1723-1803), an assumption we find repeated in Portalis & Beraldi’s description of the print. This has been rejected since, while the three men seated on the right, overseeing the competition, have been identified as the academy members Claude Vassé, Jean Restout and the Conte de Caylus, who founded the Prix.
The drawing of the subject by Cochin, in the same direction, is in the Louvre.

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