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Livre de Legumes

Print
ca.1745 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate from a set with vegetable forms combined with fish, game, shells and scrolls.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleLivre de Legumes (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Plate from a set of engravings entitled 'Livre de Legumes', taken from 'Oeuvre de Juste Aurèle Meissonnier'. Engraved by Pierre-Quentin Chedel and published by Gabriel Huquier, Paris, ca.1745.
Physical description
Plate from a set with vegetable forms combined with fish, game, shells and scrolls.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
  • Width: 11.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'C' (Lettered with publisher's series letter)
  • 'No.18' (Numbered)
Object history
From 'Oeuvre de Juste Aurèle Meissonnier', a volume of engravings after the works of the French designer, architect and goldsmith, Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750). These were issued in three editions between 1742 and 1750. The designs of Meissonnier had previously been published in printed sets or cahiers by Chereau the publisher, and were advertised in the Mercure in March 1734.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
  • Donnell, Edina. Juste Aurele and the Rococo Style. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. Dec, 1941, vo. 36, no. 12. pp. 254-260
Collection
Accession number
E.169-1967

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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