print; ornament print

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Object Type: print; ornament print
Museum number: 1984,0714.9
Title: Object: Differents desseins de Tabatieres (Various designs for snuffboxes); Series: L'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Description: Plate 50: six designs for snuff boxes, two of them with figurative scenes. 1742/8 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Gabriel Huquier; After: Juste Aurèle Meissonnier; Published by: Gabriel Huquier
School/style
Production date: 1738-1751
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 301 millimetres; Width: 221 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Plate 50 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 second plate of the eighth set with six plates of designs for rococo goldsmiths' work, published between 1742/8. The set is purely ornamental, and is not after existing objects.
Bibliographic references: Fuhring 1999 / Just-Aurèle Meissonnier, un génie du rococo (53); Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (378.H); Guilmard 1880/1 / Les Maitres Ornemanistes: Écoles Française, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande et Hollandaise) (155.16); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (975)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament; metalwork
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1984
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1984,0714.9

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