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18th-Century Drawings: Mouricault (French, fl. 1768-1795),
de Neufforge: Women / de Neufforge: Women 2 / de Neufforge: Men / de Neufforge: Biblical
North Italian Illuminated Manuscript / Italian School, 16th and early 17th-Century Drawings
Michelangelo Buonarotti (After) / Raphael / Parmigianino / Marcantonio Raimondi
Giulio Romano / Titian (after) / Andrea Schiavone / Tintoretto / Veronese / Federico Zuccaro
Jacopo Palma il Giovane / Cherubino Alberti / Luca Cambiaso / Annibale Carracci
Italian School, 17th-Century Drawings / Drawings2 / Odoardo Fialetti / Simone Cantarini / Domenichino
Francesco Albani / Guercino / Pier Francesco Mola
Italian School Printmakers, 15th-17th Centuries: Venetian School, c. 1500 / Raphael School / Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
Marcantonio Raimondi / The Master of the Die / Anea Vico / Agostino Veneziano / Nicholas Beatrizet
Michelangelo Buonarotti (After) / Giulio Bonasone / Giovanni Battista Franco /Girolamo Fagiuoli / Cherubino Alberti
Titian (after) / Tintoretto (after) / Parmigianino / Giorgio Ghisi / Diana Scultori / Annibale Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
Agostino Carracci / Simone Cantarini / Elisabetta Sirani / Gerolamo Scarsello
Netherlandish School 15th-17th-Century Drawings / Flemish School, 17th-Century
Bernaert van Orley / Lucas van Leyden / Maarten de Vos / Jan Baptiste de Wael / Abraham Bloemaert
Peter Paul Rubens / Philipp Sadeler / Nicolaes Maes / Rembrandt School
Netherlandish Printmakers 16th-17th Centuries: Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Cornelis Cort
Philips Galle, Abraham de Bruyn, Hans (Jan) Collaert, Adriaen Collaert, Karel de Mallery, Theodore Galle, Hendrik Goltzius
Julius Goltzius, Jacob Matham, Jan Sanraedam, Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler, Aegidius Sadeler, Raphael Sadeler
Crispin de Passe, Magdalena de Passe, Wierix Brothers, Rembrandt, Rembrandt School, Jan Lievens, Jan Joris van Vliet,
Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck
German Drawings: Hans Sebald Beham / Virgil Solis / Hans von Aachen / Johann Heinrich Roos
German 16th century printmakers: Heinrich Aldegrever, Jost Amman, Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Brosamer, Hans Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Albrecht Durer (After), Hans Holbein (After), Hopfer Brothers, Georg Pencz, Hans Schäufelein, Virgil Solis, Wolfgang Stuber.
18th-Century Drawings / 19th-Century Drawings / 20th-Century Drawings
Very little is known about the artist. Mouricault was elevated to the French Academy in 1769 and was still showing at the Salin in 1795. In 1779 he was one of the Commissaires du Chatelet and his medal can be seen at http://www.imagescgb.com/images/monnaies/jetons/j13/j13_0237.jpg. He was influenced by Jacques Louis David. Our pieces all appear to have come from a project devoted to the story of Cupid and Psyche. First told in Apuleius' Golden Asse (translated into English by WIlliam Warner in time to contribute to Shakespeare's portrayal of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream), the story also appealed to Raphael's workshop, and the Master of the Die, with a few contribitions from Augustino Veneziano, produced a very popular set of over thirty engravings devoted to the story.
Mouricault (French, fl. 1768-1795), Cupid fleeing from Psyche. Charcoal on gray laid paper, c. 1780. Signed "Mouricault" lower right. Provenance: all three of our drawings came from the same collection as indicated by the noatation "g-s/varies" on each piece in the lower right quadrant. Image size: 136x165mm. Price: $2000.
Mouricault (French, fl. 1768-1795), Femme a coucher (Psyche), Pencil on gray laid paper, c. 1780. bottom right of oval. This drawing was made from two pieces of paper. Signed center-right at the bottom of the oval. Provenance: all three of our drawings came from the same collection as indicated by the noatation "g-s/varies" on each piece in the lower right quadrant. Image size: 155x212mm. Price: $2500.
