"Deux hommes et une femme dans une barque", 1755. Signed and dated in the plate. From the series "Varie vedute del gentile mulino". I. 14.7 x 20.5 cm, S. 19.0 x 27.3 cm.

"Vue de l'entrée de Tivoli et des Murs de la Ville d'Est (View of the Entrance to Tivoli and the Walls of the Villa d'Este)", 1764. Signed and dated in the plate. I. 15.0 x 18.3 cm, S. 17.5 x 22.0 cm. Cayeux 39.

The son of a wealthy French lord, Jean-Claude Richard's full title derives from his family estate, the Château de Saint-Nom, near the village of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in Yvelines, France, just west of Paris. He is often rather misleadingly known as the "Abbé de Saint-Non"; although intended for the church by his family, he never took more than minor orders. He was a pioneer of the aquatint technique in printmaking. After five years of study in Rome (December 1756 to April 1761), the young artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (France 1732-1806) began an extensive journey throughout Italy with Jean-Claude Richard, who commissioned Fragonard to draw copies of the significant Old Master works in each city they visited.

PROVENANCE
Dr. C. Axel Widstrand (Sweden 1866-1956), with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2630a); The collection of Engineer and Major Frank Bensow (1883-1969), with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 982c).