RIDER, Docteur C.Livre Rare Book
Étude de vaches
177659527s. l.: S. n. 1776. Fine. S. n. s. l. Circa 1776 32 x 40.50 cm une feuille encadrée Original drawing in ink and watercolor. Modern frame. Drawing made during the journey with the Marquis de Sade in 1776. Jean-Baptiste Tierce 1737-1794 student at the École des Beaux-arts in Rouen then at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris quickly distinguished himself as a landscape painter for his views of Southern France and Italy. His paintings are preserved in the Uffizi in Florence and in several French museums. When in December 1775 Sade left Rome for Naples he was welcomed by the son-in-law of his friend Doctor Mesny Jean-Baptiste Tierce who at that time received commissions from Cardinal de Bernis. He found lodging for the Marquis ""who intended to see everything in the region learn about everything judge admire criticize love hate in short to give free rein to that insatiable and passionate curiosity which led him into museums galleries churches palaces and libraries as well as into caves vaults catacombs and even into the bowels of volcanoes. He was not content to contemplate works of art ancient or modern monuments he also observed customs politics religion administration social life. The beauty of women worldly customs the quality of performances ways of eating drinking dressing praying conducting oneself in society: nothing left him indifferent. He wanted to grasp all the present and all the past of this civilization to embrace it entirely in a single and universal vision. A gigantic program matching his exceptional imagination but which he no longer had to fulfill which it was impossible for him to fulfill. Yet such was his first ambition as a writer: grandiose excessive. With this 'great work' in view Sade took hasty notes at roadsides or in inns which he completed with notes from his correspondents Mesny and Iberti. Thus was built this monument he intended for the public but which would not see the light of day until the twentieth century. Jean-Baptiste Tierce collaborated closely: he reread the notes and recorded his observations in small notebooks with numbers referring to the works described. Sade took the greatest account of them. Often the painter accompanied him on his walks his sketch pad in hand drawing the buildings and landscapes they had before their eyes. A hundred of these drawings and gouaches were recently found in the Sade family archives. They give the Voyage en Italie the appearance of a true reportage."" Maurice Levert Sade pp. 283-284. Provenance: Sade family archives. S. n. unknown
