Au moins soyez discret & Comptez sur mes sermens

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AUGUSTIN DE SAINT-AUBIN (1736-1807)
Au moins soyez discret & Comptez sur mes sermens
the pair of engravings with etching, 1789, on laid paper, watermark Dovecote (not in Haewood) and the respective AUVERGNE countermark, a fine, uniform pair of these rare prints, with wide margins, in very good condition; together with Les Précautions by Pietro Antonio Martini (1739-1797) and Les Adieux by Robert Delaunay (1749-1814), both from: Le Monument du Costume after Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (1741-1814), engravings with etching, 1777, very good impressions, with margins, Les Adieux trimmed inside the platemark but well outside the subject at left, some foxing
Plate 362 x 260 mm., Sheet 506 x 385 mm. (Saint-Aubin)
Plate 410 x 320 mm., Sheet 477 x 385 mm. (and similar) (Moreau)
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Provenance

Initial AG in blindstamp (not in Lugt) (Moreau)

Literature

Bocher 406-7; Portalis & Beraldi 9
Victor I. Carlson & John W. Ittmann, Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814, (exh. cat.), Baltimore Museum of Art & Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985, no. 101 a & b. (Saint-Aubin)
Lawrence & Dighton 220 & 228 (Moreau)

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Lot Essay

Moreau's series Le Monument du Costume, of which two plates are included in this lot, was an important influence on Saint-Aubin, in particular on this gallant pair of prints, which are in fact portraits of the artist and his wife.

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