Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Jean Honoré Fragonard French
 After Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) Italian

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This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. This composition is based on a painting of Saint Catherine touched by divine love by Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613-1699). It was one of five paintings by Preti Fragonard copied in the church of San Pietro a Maiella in Naples in March, 1761.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching, first state of two

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching, first state of two
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching, first state of two

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