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	We acquired this object.
2020	We photographed this object.
2025	You found it!

Bound Print, MOMUS, 1723-1735

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Antoine Watteau and production directed by Jean de Jullienne and print maker: Jean Moyreau and published by Louis Surugue and Edmé-François Gersaint. 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: Watteau pinxit; Lettered lower right, in plate: Moyreau Sculpsit

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: MOMUS / AParis chez Gersaint Md sur le Pont Notre Dame Et chez Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers / Avec Privilége du Roy; Printed lower right, in plate: 1.; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: Cat. Goncourt. No. 243; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 74

Cite this object as

Bound Print, MOMUS, 1723-1735; Designed by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 – 1721); Production directed by Jean de Jullienne (French, 1686–1766); Published by Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); Print Maker: Jean Moyreau (French, 1690–1762); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-93

Accession Number 1921-6-224-93
Object ID 18225747