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Le Moyen Oppenord
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Le Moyen Oppenord
Etched by: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
Engraved by: Charles Nicolas Cochin, père (French, 1688–1754)
Engraved by: François-Antoine Aveline (French, 1727–1780)
Engraved by: Benoît Audran II (French, 1698–1772)
After: Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672–1742)
After: Pierre Soubeyran (French, 1709–1775)
After: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Publisher: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
Engraved by: Charles Nicolas Cochin, père (French, 1688–1754)
Engraved by: François-Antoine Aveline (French, 1727–1780)
Engraved by: Benoît Audran II (French, 1698–1772)
After: Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672–1742)
After: Pierre Soubeyran (French, 1709–1775)
After: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Publisher: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
1737–38
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Bound set of 89 etchings and engravings
Dimensions
Overall: 43.3 x 29 x 2.8 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1264
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Paris: Gabriel Huquier [1737-1738]
Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 383; Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire 18th cen., v. 11, pp. 498-501
Description(Paris: Gabriel Huquier [1737-1738]) Folio; 76 leaves; modern half gilt-stamped brown calf, marbled paper boards.
Illustrations of architectural ornament, including clocks, cartouches, frames, panel motifs, pilasters, fountains, etc. Primarily consists of an incompete copy of Huquier's "moyen Oppenord," one of three sets of ornament prints after designs by Oppenord. As listed in the BN Inventaire 18th (pp. 499-501), the first seven "livres" are complete; there are 14 (of 24) of the small cartouches (series H & I, most in a later printing published by Janinet; plus an early proof of one); and there are seven of the ten "Nouveau livre de fontaines."
Bound after this are a miscellaneous group of 25 ornament prints, mostly after Oppenord, including "Desseins et couronemens et amortissemens" publ. by Mariette (Berlin 313, no. 37). Also included are "Nouveau livre de serrurerie, portes, rampes, balcons...." etched by Charpentier after Soubeyran, Huquier, and Oppenord; and the title page by Hutin after Boucher to his "Recueil de differents caracteres de testes."
Illustrations of architectural ornament, including clocks, cartouches, frames, panel motifs, pilasters, fountains, etc. Primarily consists of an incompete copy of Huquier's "moyen Oppenord," one of three sets of ornament prints after designs by Oppenord. As listed in the BN Inventaire 18th (pp. 499-501), the first seven "livres" are complete; there are 14 (of 24) of the small cartouches (series H & I, most in a later printing published by Janinet; plus an early proof of one); and there are seven of the ten "Nouveau livre de fontaines."
Bound after this are a miscellaneous group of 25 ornament prints, mostly after Oppenord, including "Desseins et couronemens et amortissemens" publ. by Mariette (Berlin 313, no. 37). Also included are "Nouveau livre de serrurerie, portes, rampes, balcons...." etched by Charpentier after Soubeyran, Huquier, and Oppenord; and the title page by Hutin after Boucher to his "Recueil de differents caracteres de testes."
ProvenanceGeorges Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased by MFA, July 1, 1931.