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La Fontaine Des Graces E. Bouchardon inv. Huquier Sculp.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/1026

Imprint

A Paris: chez Huquier vis-à-vis le grand Châtelet. Avec Privilege du Roy., [between 1729 and 1737]

Physical Description

[1] pl. (fold.); 435 mm. (Broadsheet).

Responsibility Note

The plate is signed as designed by E. Bouchardon and engraved by Huquier.

Summary Note

No publication-date appears on the plate, but Huquier is known to have worked from the address 'vis-à-vis le grand Châtelet' from about 1729 to 1737.

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier, Oppenort, Bouchardon ...').

Copy Note

The plate is pasted onto its sheet.

Binding Note

18th-century speckled calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.

Subject

Graces, The
Fountains - France - History - 18th century - Baroque
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Edme Bouchardon, draughtsman
Gabriel Huquier, engraver, publisher