Livre De Vases Inventés par J. de la Joue Peintre du Roy
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2681
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier rue St. Jacque au coin de la rue des Mathurins. Avec Privilege du Roy., [between 1738 and 1749?]
Physical Description
[6] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 436 mm. (Folio).
General Note
The plates are unnumbered, and their order varies from copy to copy.
Responsibility Note
All plates except the first are signed as designed by Lajoue.
Each carries Huquier's imprint.
References
M. Roland Michel, Lajoüe Et l'Art Rocaille (1984), no. G.132-7.
Summary Note
No plate carries a date; but the address on the title-plate was that of Huquier from 1738 to 1749.
All show garden vases in rococo style, some incorporating figures of wild animals, nymphs and fountains.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier ...').
Copy Note
All plates are pasted in.
Binding Note
18th-century speckled calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.