This and 120 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Album of Prints: Selected Works from the Oeuvres of Claude Gillot and Antoine Watteau.

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1920

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2020

2025

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Bound Print, LE THEATRE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Gabriel Huquier and published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1723-1735 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: A Watteau pinx.; Lettered lower right, in plate: Huquier Sculp.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: LE THEATRE / AParis chezHuquier vis a vis le grand Chatelet, et chez la Veuve de F.de Chereau rue S. Jaques aux deux Pilliers d'Or Avec Privillege du Roy.; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat: de Goncourt. No. 251.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 40.x 1er Etat.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, LE THEATRE; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772), Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-55

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