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Livre de Cartouches Inventés par François Boucher Peintre du Roy.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2677

Imprint

A Paris: Chez Huquier rue St. Jacques au coin de la rue des Mathurins Avec Privil. du Roi., [between 1738 and 1749?]

Physical Description

12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.) (4 fold.); 438 mm. (Folio).

Responsibility Note

All plates except the title plate are signed as designed by F. Boucher.

Each carries the publisher's imprint of Huquier.

References

Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Paris, Bib. N. Cab. Est. cat., XI) (Paris, 1970), p. 446-545.

Summary Note

No publication-date is given - but the address on the title-plate was that of Huquier between 1738 and 1749.

Provenance

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

Copy Note

Each plate is pasted in.

Binding Note

18th-century sprinkled calf; rebacked in 1996, retaining earlier red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'OEuvres De Bouche & De La Iou Tom II', gilt-decorated spine. Bound with 21 others.

Name as Subject

Subject

Cartouches - France - History - 18th century - Rococo
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

François Boucher, draughtsman
Gabriel Huquier, publisher