['Les Delices De L'Enfance' and five other plates on Chinese themes.]

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/4478

Variant Title

Délices De L'Enfance

Imprint

à Paris: chès Audran ruë S. Jacques à la Ville de Paris., [17--?]

Physical Description

[6] pl.; 318 mm.

Responsibility Note

All plates are signed as drawn by Fr. Boucher, and as engraved by Balchou (pl.[1]) or Aveline le jeune (pl. [2-6]).

Each carries the imprint of Audran - apart from no. [4], where it seems to have been lost in binding in the Academy's copy.

Summary Note

There is no title-plate or title-page, and no date of publication.

The plates are captioned, and show: [1] Les Delices De L'Enfance; [2] L'Oiseau A Bonnes Fortunes; [3] Le Paquet Incommode; [4] Le Concert Chinois; [5] Le Merite De Tout Pais; [6] La Reveuse. Each plate carries some lines of verse by Saderlet (pl. [1, 2, 4-6]) or Foci (pl. [3]).

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Boucher & Verdier. Costumes & Acady. Figures' and 'R.A.' Bound with two others.

Name as Subject

Subject

Women - Children - Costume - Dress - China
Drawings - Chinoiserie - France - 18th century - Rococo
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

François Boucher, source artist, draughtsman
Pierre Aveline the younger, engraver
Balchou, engraver