"Receuil de Fontaines" and "Second Livre de Fontaines"
1736
Artist/publisher, French, 1695 - 1772
Artist, French, probably 1702 - 1760
Artist After, French, 1703 - 1770
Gabriel Huquier and Pierre-Alexandre Aveline after François Boucher
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 14 etchings with engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 28 × 36.3 × 1.4 cm (11 × 14 5/16 × 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1944.2.5-18
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
in gold-tooled letters on brown leather label affixed to spine of marbled-paper binding: RECEUIL / DES / FONTAINES / PAR / BOUCHER
first title page:in plate, at upper right: I; in plate, at center: RECEUIL DE FONTAINES / Inventées / par F. BOUCHER / Peintre du / Roy.; in plate at bottom: à Paris chez Huquier vis a vis le Grand Chatelet avec Privilege du Roy.
second title page: in plate, at upper left: B; in plate, at upper right: I; in plate, in image, at center: SECOND / LIVRE / de / FONTAINES, / Inventées / Par / F. BOUCHER / Peintre du Roy; in plate, below image, at right: P. Aveline Sculp.; in plate, at bottom: AParis chez Huquier vue St. Jacques au coin de la rue des Maturins. C.P.R.
Markings
verso of title page for "Recueil de Fontaines" stamped in purple ink: ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНАЯ / Библи-ека / Ленингр. Коммунист. / Университет
[Main Library of the Leningrad Communist University] /
Име. No ________ [annotated 269294 in purple ink]