Charles Nicolas Cochin

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Charles Nicolas Cochin

1715-1790

A Dove Pursued by a Falcon Lands on Godefroy's Knees - He Notices a Note Under Its Wings

Black chalk on gray paper; squared in black chalk for transfer.

Full sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (120 x 157 mm); design area: 2 7/16 x 5 inches (61 x 128 mm)

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1989.41:18

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Watermark: fragmentary.
The present sheet is the preparatory drawing for the full-page illustration of Canto XVIII, Ott. 34.35 of "La Gerusalemme Liberata". 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 Charles Emmanuel, engraver, disciple de Baquoy (1744-1802), and precedes p. 217 of Volume II of the second edition of 1785-1786, a copy of which is in the Gordon Ray Collection at the Morgan Library. The present sheet is the preparatory drawing for the headpiece to Canto XVIII, Ott. 98. The corresponding finished drawing is in the Spencer Collection at the New York Public Library, and is signed and dated by the artist.

Inscription:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, above the design, "5. / Canto XVIII. Ott. 98. / ott. 51. / de droitte a gauche". Collector's mark of the Comte Nicholas A. Koucheleff-Bezborodko stamped in blue at lower right corner (Lugt 1629).

Provenance:

Comte Nicolas A. Koucheleff-Bezborodko, St. Petersburg (Lugt 1629); Comte J.P. van Suchtelen, general and Russian diplomat (Lugt 2332; his mark only on the first page of the album of 102 drawings sold at Sotheby's in 1970); his sale, Paris, 4 June 1862; Cambray and Portalis Collections; Eugène von Wasserman, Brussels; his sale, Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, 24-27 October and 3-5 November 1921, pp. 153-4, no. 954; General Jacques Willems, Brussels; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 April 1970, lots 143 and 144; H. Shickman Gallery; Adolphe Stein, Paris; Christian Humann; his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January 1983, no. 75 (nine drawings and two prints); Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., New York.

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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.

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