Bound Print, VENUS BLESSÉ PAR L'AMOUR

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus and Pierre-Alexandre Aveline and published by Edmé-François Gersaint and Louis Surugue. 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.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Watteau Invenit; Etched lower left, in plate: Watteau In.; Lettered lower right, in plate: retouché au Burin par P.Aveline; Etched lower right, in plate: C. Scul.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: AParis chezGersaint Md. Pont Notre Dame et chez Surugue Graveur rue des Noyers / VENUS BLESSÉ PAR L'AMOUR / PLAFOND GRAVÉ D'APRES L'ORIGINAL DE LA MEME GRANDEUR . INVENTÉ ET DESSINÉ PAR A.WATTEAU. / Avec Privilege du Roy; Inscribed in graphite, upper left, in margin: Cat. Goncourt. No. 308.; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: 83

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