Second Livre De Vases Inventes par Edme Bouchardon Sculpteur du Roy.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2694

Imprint

a Paris: chez Huquier vis a vis le Grand Chatelet avec privilege du Roy., [between 1729 and 1737]

Physical Description

[12] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 437 mm. (Folio).

Responsibility Note

All plates are signed as designed by Bouchardon and engraved by Huquier.

References

A set of the plates of both the first and second books appears as nos. 537-560 in the list of Huquier's engravings in the catalogue of 18th-century French engravings in the Département des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, vol. xi (1970).

Summary Note

No publication-date is given - but 'vis a vis le Grand Chatelet' is known as Huquier's address from about 1729 to July 1737, and he advertised both the 'Premier Livre' and 'Second Livre De Vases' in the Mercure de France in May 1737.

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier, Oppenort, Bouchardon ...').

Copy Note

All plates are pasted in. Each sheet carries also, pasted in, a plate in the series 'Premier Livre De Vases Inventes par Edme Bouchardon'.

Binding Note

18th-century sprinkled calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.

Name as Subject

Subject

Vases - France - History - 18th century - Rococo
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Edme Bouchardon, draughtsman
Gabriel Huquier, engraver, publisher