Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le poème d'Adonis

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Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le poème d'Adonis

Illustrated by: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
Engraved by: Remi Henri Joseph Delvaux (French, 1748/50–1823)
Portrait(s) designed by: Hyacinthe François Rigau y Ros, called Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743)
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621–1695)
Publisher: Saugrain [firm] (French, late 18th century)
Publisher: Pierre François Didot (French, 1731–1793)
Printer: Plassan [firm] (French, late 18th century)

1797

Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 18 etching and engravings

Dimensions Overall (each vol. depth variable): 16 x 10.6 x 3.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/16 x 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent

Accession Number37.1622a-b

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Paris: Plassan, for Saugrain et Didot, 1797

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 584

Description(Paris: Plassan, for Saugrain et Didot, 1797) 12mo, two vols.; [v. 1] 111 leaves, plus 6 plates; [v. 2] 142 ll., plus 12 plates; contemporary gilt-stamped marbled brown calf.

Literary illustrations; author portrait. First edition with these illustrations, which are reductions in reverse of Moreau's series for the 1795 quarto edition (MFA copy: 37.2373). This copy contains two impressions of each plate (with captions and proofs before captions).

ProvenanceAcquired in Paris in 1907 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.