This and 5 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, NOUVELLES Decoration d’Apartemens Dessiné Par Boulanger Sculpteur.

Object Timeline

1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2024

  • You found it!

Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger and published by Jacques-François Chéreau, Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau and Gilles Demarteau and print maker: D.M. It is dated 1755–76 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower center: Avec Priv. du Roy; lettered lower right: D.M. Sculp.; lettered lower center: Se vend chés Démarteau rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche vis a vis St. Denis de la Chartre / Et aux deux Pilliers d’Or rue St. Jacques

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper left: 1; lettered center within cartouche: NOUVELLES / Decoration d’Apartemens / Dessiné Par Boulanger / Sculpteur; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: A-1

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page; Designed by Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger (French?, active mid 18th century); Print Maker: D.M (active 18th century); Published by Gilles Demarteau (Belgian, active in France, 1722 – 1776), Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau (French, active 1755-1768), Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-419-1

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