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Collection de cent-vingt estampes, gravées d'après les tableaux & dessins qui composoient le cabinet de M. Poullain, Receveur Général des Domaines du Roi, décédé en 1780


Cabinet Poullain
Drawing by: Pierre Etienne Moitte (French, 1722–1780)
Illustrated by: Pierre-Philippe Choffard (French, 1730–1809)
Illustrated by: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (French, 1748–1813)
Engraved by: Jean Dambrun (French, 1741–about 1808)
Engraved by: Robert de Launay (French, 1754–1814)
Engraved by: Jean Louis Delignon (French, 1755–about 1804)
Engraved by: François Dequevauviller (French, 1745–1807)
Engraved by: Louis Garreau (French, active 1770–1811)
Engraved by: Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg (German, 1743–1790)
Engraved by: Thérèse-Eléanor (Hémery) Lingée (French, born in 1753)
Engraved by: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730–1809)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792)
Engraved by: Pietro Antonio Martini (Italian, 1738–1797)
Engraved by: Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831)
Engraved by: Marguerite (Hémery) Ponce (French, born in 1745)
Author: Antoine Poullain (French, died in 1780)
Compiled by: Pierre François Basan (French, 1723–1797)
Publisher: Basan and Poignant (active 1773–1788)
Printer: Prault (French, 18th century)
1781
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 121 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 31.3 x 24 x 3.8 cm (12 5/16 x 9 7/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.2357
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Basan et Poignant, 1781

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 116-117
Description(Paris: Basan et Poignant, 1781) Large quarto; 14 leaves, plus 116 plates; modern gilt-stamped red morocco (Chambolle-Duru, 1869).

Illustrations reproducing old master paintings and drawings; decorative part titles and armorial vignette.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1925 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.