Charles Nicolas Cochin
1715-1790
Armida Fainting at the Departure of Rinaldo Who Is Led Away by the Knights
Full sheet: 8 3/16 x 6 3/8 inches (208 x 161 mm); design area: 7 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (183 x 140 mm)
Black chalk on gray paper; squared in black chalk for transfer.
1989.41:15
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Watermark: PRO PATRIA or Maid of Holland (cf. Churchill 127-153).
This sheet belongs to an ensemble of eighteen preparatory sketches (seven for vignettes and eleven for headpieces) for illustrations and two prints after Cochin for an 1784-85 edition of Torquato Tasso's "La Gerusalemme Liberata" published in Paris by François Ambroise Didot. These illustrations were commissioned by Monsieur, the Comte de Provence and the brother of Louis XVI who later reigned as Louis XVIII (1755-1824). The eighteen drawings were part of an album of 102 drawings broken up and sold in several lots by Sotheby's, London, in 1970. The present sheet is the preparatory drawing for the full-page illustration of Canto XVI, Ott. 59. The corresponding finished drawing is in the Spencer Collection at the New York Public Library, and is signed and dated by the artist. The print, in the opposite direction, was executed by J. B. Tilliard, engraver and publisher (c. 1740-1813), and precedes p. 165 of Volume II of the second edition of 1785-1786 of "La Gerusalemme Liberata", a copy of which is in the Gordon Ray Collection at the Morgan Library.
This sheet belongs to an ensemble of eighteen preparatory sketches (seven for vignettes and eleven for headpieces) for illustrations and two prints after Cochin for an 1784-85 edition of Torquato Tasso's "La Gerusalemme Liberata" published in Paris by François Ambroise Didot. These illustrations were commissioned by Monsieur, the Comte de Provence and the brother of Louis XVI who later reigned as Louis XVIII (1755-1824). The eighteen drawings were part of an album of 102 drawings broken up and sold in several lots by Sotheby's, London, in 1970. The present sheet is the preparatory drawing for the full-page illustration of Canto XVI, Ott. 59. The corresponding finished drawing is in the Spencer Collection at the New York Public Library, and is signed and dated by the artist. The print, in the opposite direction, was executed by J. B. Tilliard, engraver and publisher (c. 1740-1813), and precedes p. 165 of Volume II of the second edition of 1785-1786 of "La Gerusalemme Liberata", a copy of which is in the Gordon Ray Collection at the Morgan Library.
Inscriptions/Markings
Collector's mark of the Comte Nicholas A. Koucheleff-Bezborodko stamped in blue at lower left corner (Lugt 1629).
Associated names
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata.
Koucheleff-Bezborodko, Nicolas A., Comte, 1834-1862, former owner.
Suchtelen, J. P. van, Comte, 1751-1836, former owner.
Wasserman, Eugène von, former owner.
Willems, Jacques, 1870-1957, former owner.
Stein, Adolphe, former owner.
Koucheleff-Bezborodko, Nicolas A., Comte, 1834-1862, former owner.
Suchtelen, J. P. van, Comte, 1751-1836, former owner.
Wasserman, Eugène von, former owner.
Willems, Jacques, 1870-1957, former owner.
Stein, Adolphe, former owner.
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