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.

Object Timeline

1920	We acquired this object.
2020	We photographed this object.
2025	You found it!

Bound Print, LE FAUNE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Pierre-Alexandre Aveline 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: Aveline Sculp.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LE FAUNE / AParis chez Gersaint Md.sur le Pont Notre Dame Et chez Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers / Avec Privilege du Roy; Printed lower right, in plate: 4; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat Goncourt. No. 241.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 77

Cite this object as

Bound Print, LE FAUNE; 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; 1921-6-224-96

Accession Number 1921-6-224-96
Object ID 18225767