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Album, LIVRE DE PORTIERES

This is a Album. It was designed by Claude Gillot and published by Gabriel Huquier, Louis Surugue and Edmé-François Gersaint and print maker: Claude Gillot, Claude Gillot, Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger, Louis Crépy and Anne Claude Philippe Caylus. It is dated 1729–37 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: 44 × 32 cm (17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: 256

Cite this object as

Album, LIVRE DE PORTIERES; Designed by Claude Gillot (French, 1673 - 1722); Print Maker: Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger (1715 - 1790), Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (French, 1692 – 1765), Louis Crépy; Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772), Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); H x W: 44 × 32 cm (17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-420

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