Attributed to Jean Mathieu, French 1749-1815- Le... Lot 126

Attributed to Jean Mathieu, French 1749-1815- Le Serment d'Amour, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard; coloured engraving on metal, bears signatures 'Mathieu' (within the plate, lower right) and 'fragonard pinxt' (within the plate, lower left), titled 'LE SERMENT D'AMOUR' (within the plate, lower edge), 29.8 x 23.4 cm. Provenance: Property from a European Private Collection. Note: The present engraving is evidently related to Mathieu's engraving on paper of the same scene, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard's (1732-1806) original painting, now in Waddesdon Manor. This work is in the same orientation as the printed version, and so appears to have been made as an engraving on metal, a separate work of art in its own right, rather than a printing matrix.