This and 120 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Album of Prints: Selected Works from the Oeuvres of Claude Gillot and Antoine Watteau.

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1920

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Bound Print, LA CAUSE BADINE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Jean Moyreau and published by Louis Surugue and Edmé-François Gersaint. It is dated 1723-1735 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Watteau pinx.; Lettered lower right, in plate: J. Moyreau Sculp.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LA CAUSE BADINE / AParis chez Gersaint Md. pont N.D. et chez Surugue ruë des Noyers / avec privilege du Roi .; Printed lower right, in plate: 1; Inscribed in graphite, upper left, in margin: Cat. Goncourt. 291; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: 82.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, LA CAUSE BADINE; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); Print Maker: Jean Moyreau (French, 1690–1762); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-101

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