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Le Petit Oppenord
Etched by: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
After: Gilles-Marie Oppenord (French, 1672–1742)
Publisher: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
before 1748
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Bound set of 84 etchings (168 subjects)
Dimensions Overall: 27.7 x 38 x 3 cm (10 7/8 x 14 15/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1265
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsBound sets
Paris: Gabriel Huquier [before 1748]

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 382; Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire 18th cen., v. 11, pp. 498, 501-02
Description(Paris: Gabriel Huquier [before 1748]) Oblong folio; 84 leaves; nineteenth[?]-century blind- and gilt-stamped brown calf.

Illustrations after sketches of Roman architectural details. One of three sets of ornament designs after Oppenord published by Huquier; this is often known as the "Petit Oppenord." It consists of 168 designs etched two to a plate after drawings done by Oppenord when in Rome from 1692 to 1699. The MFA owns the two other sets (31.1263-64).
ProvenanceInscription on preliminary leaf: "Ex libris Happe"; Princesse de Poix (bookplate, and monogram on binding); Georges Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased by MFA, July 1, 1931.