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 DANSE BACHIQUE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and published by Jacques-Gabriel Huquier and print maker: Jacques-Gabriel Huquier and production directed by Jean de Jullienne. 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: A. Watteau inv; Lettered lower right, in plate: Huquier Sculp

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LA DANSE BACHIQUE / AParis chez Huquier fils Graveur rue St.Jacques au grd.S.Remy. Avec priv. du Roi.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 98

Cite this object as

Bound Print, LA DANSE BACHIQUE; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Jacques-Gabriel Huquier (French, 1730 - 1805); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-119

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