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This and 120 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Album of Prints: Selected Works from the Oeuvres of Claude Gillot and Antoine Watteau.

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Bound Print, Le Repos de Pellerins

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and Gabriel Huquier and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1723-1735 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 lower left, in plate: A. Watteau Inv.; Lettered lower right, in plate: Huquier Sculp

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LE REPOSE DES PELLERINS / AParis chez la V.de F.Chereau rue S.Jaque aux deux Pilliers d'or; Et chez Huquier vis a vis le grand Chatelet AvecPrivilege du Roi; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat: Goncourt. No. 262.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 8.x

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Le Repos de Pellerins; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772), Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-23

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