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Album, LIVRE DE DIFFERENTS Caracteres de Têtes. Inventez Par M. Watteaux, Et Gravez d’après ses Desseins, par Filloeul

This is a Album. It was print maker: Pierre Filloeul, Louis Crépy and Anne Claude Philippe Caylus and published by Pierre Filloeul and Edmé-François Gersaint and after Antoine Watteau. It is dated 1727–34 and we acquired it in 1920. 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

Inscribed in graphite upper left margin, upper cover pastedown: 362; inscribed in graphite, upper right margin, upper cover pastedown: 1921-6-491/ I-81; Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in graphite in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: 362

Cite this object as

Album, LIVRE DE DIFFERENTS Caracteres de Têtes. Inventez Par M. Watteaux, Et Gravez d’après ses Desseins, par Filloeul; Print Maker: Pierre Filloeul (French, b. 1696–after 1754), Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (French, 1692 – 1765), Louis Crépy; After Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Published by Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-491

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