Study of Five Heads, from Receuil de différents caractères des testes dessinées d'apres la Colonne Trajane (Study of Different Types of Heads Designed after the Column of Trajan)

Jean-Baptiste Hutin, French, 1726 - 1786
after François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770

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1760-1770

Engraving on paper

Plate: 11 5/8 × 11 1/2 in. (29.5 × 29.2 cm)

Sheet: 23 1/2 × 28 5/8 in. (59.7 × 72.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

2011.33.3

Publisher

Gabriel Huquier

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

In plate, top right, numbered: 8; in plate, bottom left: F. Boucher del.; in plate, bottom right: Huquier ex. rue S. Jackques C.P.R.; watermark: Auvergne.

Course History

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Winter 2012

Provenance

Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), publisher's file copy (the original album remains in the British Museum); Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2011.

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