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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, APOLLON

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and Claude Gillot and print maker: Claude Gillot and Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and published by Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1729–37 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.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: APOLLON / LIVRE DE PORTIERES / Inventées & Gravées à l'eau fortee par Gillot Peintre du Roi / AParis chez Huquier vis-à-vis le grand Châtelet Avec priv.du Roi.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 2.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, APOLLON; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721), Claude Gillot (French, 1673 - 1722); Print Maker: Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger (1715 - 1790); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-3

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