Gabriel Huquier

We have 263 objects that Gabriel Huquier has had a hand in. Here's the break-down:

• Publisher, 112 objects
• Engraver, 108 objects
• Etcher, 27 objects
• Sculptor, 11 objects
• Draftsman, 3 objects
• Designer, one object
• Print Maker, one object

These are a couple of those things by Gabriel Huquier in our collection:

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  please don't steal our pictures, yeah?
  Print, 1748 This object's accession number is 1921-6-212-55 and is dated 1748 This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department This object was designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

  
  
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  please don't steal our pictures, yeah?
  Print, "Design of Title Page with Chandelier with Three Branches", 1740 This object's accession number is 1921-6-212-31-a and is dated 1740 (Rococo) This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department This object was designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

  
  

Wikipedia

The entrepreneurial printseller Gabriel Huquier (1695–1772), established in rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, was a prominent engraver and designer of ornament in an advanced Rococo taste, a pivotal figure in the production of French 18th-century ornamental etchings and engravings who was himself a collector of works of art, whose collections were dispersed at three great auction sales, in Amsterdam, 1761, in Paris, 1771, and after his death, in Paris, 1772. He was working from about 1731 until his apparent retirement in 1761. He engraved Watteau's designs, interpreting and adapting them so that he became the main source through whom Watteau's ornament was known in the 18th century and went on to etch and engrave designs of Jacques de Lajoue, François Boucher, Gilles-Marie Oppenord, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, Alexis Peyrotte, Nicolas Pineau and many other contemporary painters and designers.

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His son Jacques (or James) Gabriel Huquier (1730–1805) known as Huquier fils, was also an engraver, as well as a portrait painter.

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