Pierre Berchet (French 1659-1719/20)

Pierre Berchet (French 1659-1719/20)

Design for a frontispiece depicting Apollo, a muse and putti with musical instruments

Signed Berchet in (lower right)

Pen and ink with grey wash

26.8 x 19.7cm; 10½ x 7¾in

Provenance:

From the collection of Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980)

Literature:

John Eccles, A Collection of Songs For One, Two and Three Voices...(John Walsh, 1704), frontispiece;

George Frederick Handel, Apollo's Feast (J.Walsh and J.Hare, 1726), frontispiece

Engraved:

Hendrick Hulsbergh