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This and 91 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Tome 3 of the Oeuvre of Juste-François Boucher, known as Boucher fils.

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Print, Elevation d'une niche ornée de refends, ca. 1775

This is a Print. It was designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils and print maker: Pichard and published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Charles Le Pere and Pierre-Michel Avaulez. It is dated ca. 1775 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving on off white 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 signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Boucher fil. inv.; Lettered lower right, in plate: Pichard sculp

It is inscribed

Printed upper left, in plate: 35e. Cahier; Printed upper center, in plate: Elevation d une niche ornée de refends .; Printed upper right, in plate: No. 205; Printed lower center, in plate: A Paris chés Le Pere et Avaulez Mds. d'Estampes rue St. Jacques pres la Fne. S. Severin a la Ville de Rouen

Cite this object as

Print, Elevation d'une niche ornée de refends, ca. 1775; Designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils (French, 1736 – 1782); Print Maker: Pichard (French, active 18th century); Published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Charles Le Pere (French, active 18th century), Pierre-Michel Avaulez (French, active 1772 – d. 1774); France; engraving on off white laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-254-13

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