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Huquier is best known as a designer and engraver of ornamental prints, a genre in which he displayed much inventiveness and playfulness. Other well-known artists, such as Watteau, Boucher, Meissonier, and here Bouchardon, collaborated with him. His prints could serve as inspiration for craftsmen working in many other mediums.
HUQUIER, Gabriel (1695–1772)
Second Livre de Vases inventés par Edmé Bouchardon, sculpteur du Roy, the complete set of twelve including the title-plate
- Medium
- Etchings with engraving, 1737
- Catalogue reference
- Inventaire du fonds français 549-60; Berlin Katalog 1060; Anne-Lise Desmas and Edouard Kopp et al, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau, Paris, 2016, p. 292 ff.
- Condition
- Fine impressions with 50-60 mm margins. Apart from very occasional pale marks or foxing in the margins in excellent, fresh condition. Rare complete.
- Size
- 198 × 132mm
- Additional notes
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Huquier is best known as a designer and engraver of ornamental prints, a genre in which he displayed much inventiveness and playfulness. Other well-known artists, such as Watteau, Boucher, Meissonier, and here Bouchardon, collaborated with him. His prints could serve as inspiration for craftsmen working in many other mediums.
- Price
- The set $3,800 USD