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Bound Print, Le Bouffon

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and published by Gabriel Huquier and Marguerite Caillou Chéreau 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 BOUFFON / AParis chez la Veuve de Chereau rue St.Jaques aux deux Pilliers d'Or et chez Huquier vis a vis le grand Chatelet avec Privilége du Roi; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat. Goncourt. No. 245.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 12.x.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Le Bouffon; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755), Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-27

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