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1920

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2025

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Book Of Engravings, Album of Prints: Chinoiseries and Screens designed by Gabriel Huquier and François Boucher

This is a Book of engravings. It was designed by François Boucher and Gabriel Huquier and print maker: Claude Augustin Duflos, Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger, Gabriel Huquier, Jean Baptiste Le Prince and Pierre-Alexandre Aveline and published by Nicolas de Larmessin IV and Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1740–1770 and we acquired it in 1920. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It has the following markings

Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Leon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 38

Cite this object as

Book Of Engravings, Album of Prints: Chinoiseries and Screens designed by Gabriel Huquier and François Boucher; Designed by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); Print Maker: Claude Augustin Duflos (French, 1700–1786), Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger (1715 - 1790), Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (French, 1702–1760), Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734 – 1781); Published by Nicolas de Larmessin IV (French, 1684 - 1755); France; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-203

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