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Bound Print, L'OPTIQUE
This is a Bound print. It was designed by Jacques de Lajoüe and published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and print maker: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder. It is dated 1737 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on paper. 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 is signed
Lettered lower left, in plate: Inventé et peint par J. la Jouë; lettered lower right, in plate: Gravé par C.N. Cochin.; lettered lower center in plate: Se vend à Paris chez la veuve de François Chereau graveur du Roy ruë St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d’Or.
It is inscribed
Lettered lower center, in plate : L’OPTIQUE. / Tiré du cabinet de Monseigneur le duc de PICQUIGNY; inscribed in graphite lower left margin : 1921-6-211 (8)
Cite this object as
Bound Print, L'OPTIQUE; Designed by Jacques de Lajoüe (French, 1687–1761); Print Maker: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder (French, 1688 - 1754); Published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); France; etching and engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-211-8
