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print
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album
Object Type
print
album
Museum number
1857,0613.692
Title
Object:
Huistres à l'écaille
Series:
Etudes prises dans le bas peuple ou les Cris de Paris - seconde suite
Description
Plate 8: oyster seller; a young woman turned to the left and carrying a large basket on her back. 1737 Etching finished with engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus
Print made by:
Étienne Fessard
After:
Edme Bouchardon
Published by:
François Joullain
Published by:
Étienne Fessard
School/style
French
Production date
1737
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
238 millimetres
Width:
186 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This print is bound in an album with the Cris de Paris (print studies by Bouchardon and corresponding prints by Caylus). See 1857,0613.733 for comment on series and album. For related drawing see 1857,0613.753. For impression of a different state, without Joullain's address, see 1938,0502.22.20.
Bibliographic references
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(61(9))
(Caylus)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
2005/6 Nov-Jan, New York, Met Mus of Art, Clouet to Seurat/BM, no. 45 2006 June-Oct, BM, Clouet to Seurat/BM, no. 45
Subjects
street-trader
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
A E Evans & Sons
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Laurent Grimod de la Reynière
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Pierre Jean Mariette
(L.1852 (1857-6-13-733))
Acquisition date
1857
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1857,0613.692