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1920

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2016

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Album, Diverses figures chinoises et tartares peintes par Watteau Peintre du Roy en son Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture tirées Du Cabinet de sa Majesté au Chateau de la Meute

This is a Album. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and print maker: Edme Jeaurat and published by Louis Surugue and Marguerite Caillou Chéreau. It is dated 1731 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.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 30.5 × 24.5 cm (12 in. × 9 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Leon Decloux ex-libris pasted in center of upper pastedown.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of printed Ex-Libris: 366

Cite this object as

Album, Diverses figures chinoises et tartares peintes par Watteau Peintre du Roy en son Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture tirées Du Cabinet de sa Majesté au Chateau de la Meute; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Print Maker: Edme Jeaurat (French, 1688 - 1738); Published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); H x W: 30.5 × 24.5 cm (12 in. × 9 5/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-495

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