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P. Cabinets de curiosités

Print
c. 1776 - 1782 (Printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Juste-Nathan Boucher (Designer)
Jacques-François Chéreau (Publisher)
Berthault (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Paris (Printed and published)

An engraving depicting a design for a cabinet of curiosities in the neoclassical style. The print illustrates an elevation of one of the walls of the room showing a table supporting a clock.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Designs
Interiors
Architectural Fittings
Architecture
Object type
Print
Titles
  • P. Cabinets de curiosités (Series title)
  • Elévation d'un Cabinet décoré d'armoires pour Biblioteques ou diverses Curiosités (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
Juste-Nathan Boucher (after), 'Elévation d'un Cabinet décoré d'armoires pour Biblioteques ou diverses Curiosités', plate from a series of 15 sets of 4 plates each, designs for furniture, executed after Boucher's designs by various printmakers, French, ca. 1776-1782
Physical description
An engraving depicting a design for a cabinet of curiosities in the neoclassical style. The print illustrates an elevation of one of the walls of the room showing a table supporting a clock.
Dimensions
  • Average size height: 35.8cm
  • Width: 22.2cm
Style
French School
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Lettered with title)
  • 'Chereau Exc. Avec Privilege de Roy. Berthault Sculp.' (Lettered)
Subjects depicted
Cabinets
Table
Clock
Swags
Vases
Roundels
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 230, 38.
  • (Berlin I) Berlin Königliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung, Leipzig, 1894, 32.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2445-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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