Acht Chinese vogels, waaronder mogelijk paradijsvogels, Gabriel Huquier (attributed to), after Gabriel Huquier, after Jean Antoine Fraisse, 1742 - 1750

Title(s)

Acht Chinese vogels, waaronder mogelijk paradijsvogels
Verschillende Chinese vogels (series title)
Livre des differentes éspeces d'oiseaux de la Chine (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

15/15

Object number

RP-P-2006-73

Catalogue reference

• IFF 18e siècle 1953-1967

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Gabriel Huquier (attributed to)
• print maker: Jean Antoine Fraisse (possibly)
• after design by: Gabriel Huquier (attributed to)
• publisher: Gabriel Huquier (mentioned on object)
• Louis XV of France (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Paris
print maker: France
after design by: Paris
publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1742 - 1750

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 545 mm × width 347 mm

What

• birds
• ornamental birds: bird of paradise

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1-Dec-2005

Copyright

Public domain

• Metropolitan Museum journal, XXXI (1996), p. 127-130
• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, dl. 11, p. 536-537, cat.nr. 1953-1967