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This and 4 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Cahier d’Arabesques Composés par C.L. Desrais en 1789.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Panel Design

This is a Print. It was designed by Claude-Louis Desrais and published by Jacques-François Chéreau and print maker: Jacques Le Roy. It is dated 1789 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving 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 signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: C.L. Desrais Inv; lettered lower right: Je Le Roy Sc.; lettered lower center: J. Chereau Exc

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, center: AMORI; numbered in plate, lower right: 4; inscribed in red ink along left border, in plate: Manufacture de Porcelaine d’Orleans [---] Lebrun 1806%-; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 1921-5-296 (4)

Cite this object as

Print, Panel Design; Designed by Claude-Louis Desrais (French, 1746–1816); Print Maker: Jacques Le Roy; Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-296-4

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