La Jeu de la Palette, Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, 1766
La Jeu de la Palette, 1766, Aquatint printed in brown ink, 8 9/16 x 11 1/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (French, Paris 1727–1791 Paris), After Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), A patron of the arts and also a printmaker, Saint-Non made etchings based on drawings by many of France's leading artists, which he published in suites entitled, Griffonis (1755–78). About 1765, he developed aquatint as a tonal process he could employ to suggest ink washes in his prints after the drawings of his friends Fragonard and Hubert Robert
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