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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2020

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Bound Print, LA BALANCEUSE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas 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 Pinxit; Lettered lower right, in plate: Le Bas Sculp

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LA BALANCEUSE / a Paris chez Gersaint Md. pont N.D. Et chez Surugue graveur du Roy Rüe des Noyers Avec Privilege du Roy.; Printed lower right, in plate: 2.; Inscribed in graphite, center left, in margin: Goncourt. No. 200.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 94

Cite this object as

Bound Print, LA BALANCEUSE; 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: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707–83); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-115

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