La Jeu de la Palette. Artist: After Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732-1806 Paris); Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (French, Paris 1727-1791 Paris). Dimensions: 8 9/16 x 11 1/8 in. (21.7 x 28.3 cm). Date: 1766.
A patron of the arts and also a printmaker, Saint-Non made etchings based on drawings by many of France's leading artists, which he published in suites entitled, Griffonis (1755-78). About 1765, he developed aquatint as a tonal process he could employ to suggest ink washes in his prints after the drawings of his friends Fragonard and Hubert Robert.