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, BACCHUS

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and published by Edmé-François Gersaint and Louis Surugue and print maker: Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. 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 Pinxit.; Lettered lower right, in plate: P. Aveline Sculp.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: A Paris chez Gersaint Md. Pont N.D. et chez Surugue rue des Noyers. / BACCHUS / avec Privilege du Roy.; Printed lower right, in plate: 3.; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat. Goncourt. 238.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 87.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, BACCHUS; 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: Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (French, 1702–1760); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-108

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