- Also known as
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Gabriel Huquier
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primary name: Huquier, Gabriel
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other name: Hucquier, Gabriel
- Details
- individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1695-1772
- Address
- 'Aux Armes d'Angleterre', vis à vis du Grand Châtelet, Paris (c.1729-1737)
rue St Jacques près (OR au coin de) celle des Mathurins (1738-49)
rue des Mathurins au coin de la rue de Sorbonne (1749-61)
- Biography
- Collector, etcher and publisher, specialising in rococo ornament; father of painter, engraver and printseller Jacques Gabriel Huquier; ceased publishing activities in 1761; sale of drawings collection Paris, 9.ix.1772. Collector's mark, h in a circle, Lugt 1285 formerly described as his but Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, 'Lugt 1285: From Gabriel Huquier to Peter Adolf Hall', "Master Drawings", 55, 4, Winter 2017, pp. 485-538, has disproved this.
A pastel portrait of him by Perronneau, dated 1747, is in the Louvre (RF35521).
- Bibliography
- Y.Bruand in GBA (37) 1950, pp.99-114
Préaud
Fuhring, 'Meissonnier' 1999, p.466
'Catalogue des estampes' for sale dated 1757 in Berlin (photocopy in P&D)
'Catalogue du fond de planches gravées et épreuves' drawn up by F.C.Joullain, Paris 1772 (posthumous sale; copy in BN Yd 78 in-8)