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Livre de Cartouches

Etching
c. 1750 - 1775 (Printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Boucher (Designer)
Johann Georg Hertel I (Publisher)
Place of origin
Augsburg (Printed and published)

Etching.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleLivre de Cartouches (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Anonymous printmaker after François Boucher. One of 6 plates of designs for cartouches with allegorical figures. Reduced reverse copies of Boucher's Livre de Cartouches, published by Johann Georg Hertel. Augsburg, eighteenth century.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 29.7cm
  • Width: 20.1cm
Styles
French School
German School
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 168, no. 43.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 416.
  • Jean-Richard, P, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1978, 1076-77.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
24893:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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