CARLO LASINIO Portrait d'Edouard Gautier Dagoty,... Lot 25

CARLO LASINIO Portrait d'Edouard Gautier Dagoty, inventeur de la gravure en couleurs, 1784, manière noire after E. Heinsius, 50 x 43 cm, cut to subject (Singer 444), very fine and rare proof printed in color, before the letter, with the handwritten letter in Italian (Ritratto del Se Edoardo Dagoty inventore d'incidere a colori, nato in / Parigi l'anno 1745, morto in Firenze an: 1783.), small tears in the upper edge, not examined out of the frame, important Louis XVI period carved and gilded wood frame with oves and darts and water leaves motifs. Provenance: - Louise Balthy (sale Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, July 2-4, 1917, no. 42) - Henry Thomas (see Lugt 1378), then by descent. Expert: Antoine Cahen