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This and 11 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, LIVRE NOUVEAU de Differents Trophées Inventez par A. Watteau et Gravé par Huquier.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Design for a Trophy

This is a Print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and print maker: Gabriel Huquier and published by Gabriel Huquier and Marguerite Caillou Chéreau. It is dated ca. 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.

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: A. Watteau in.; lower center: Paris chez Huquier vis a vis le Grand Chatelet et chez Ve. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux 2 pilliers d’Or/ avec privilege du Roy; lower right : Huquier Sculp.

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper right: 7

Cite this object as

Print, Design for a Trophy; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); Published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-494-7

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