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Object Type
Museum number: 1983,U.1763
Title: Series: L'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Description: Plate 15: Ornament with shells and two Cupids. 1738/39 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Louis Desplaces; After: Juste Aurèle Meissonnier
School/style
Production date: 1738-1739
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 118 millimetres; Width: 198 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Plate 25 in the complete edition of 'L'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier', a set of 118 plates after Meissonnier, published by Huquier from 1742-51. Many of the plates had previously been published in smaller sets: this was the sixth plate of the fourth set with seven plates of rococo ornament in panels, first announced in 1733 and published in 1734. The sets is purely ornamental, and is not after existing objects.
Bibliographic references: Fuhring 1999 / Just-Aurèle Meissonnier, un génie du rococo (29); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (172); Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (378(D))
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament; classical deity
Associated names
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1753-1983
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1983,U.1763

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