Gabriel Huquier
Gabriel Huquier is represented here by a compact group of prints that belong to the ornamental and genre imagery of the French eighteenth century, carried almost entirely by etching and engraving. Scenes of reading, tea drinking, servants, children and chinoiserie figures dominate the subjects, with a few sheets relying on etching alone or adding stippling to the plate. The collection holds 26 works, dated by the Met to 1720–1742, with impressions up to that later date rather than original creations throughout. Together they show a printmaker moving between fine linear engraving and lighter etched linework across roughly two decades.
26 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
Two Children, One With A Sword, Another With A Helmet
· Etching and Engraving
Plate 1: Young Woman Feeding her Infant, from Premier Livre de Sujets et Pastorales (First Book of Subjects and Pastorals)
1720–72 · Etching and engraving
Plate 3: Shepherd tickling a sleeping Shepherdess with a piece of straw, from Troisieme Livre de Sujets et Pastorales (Third Book of Subjects and Pastorals)
1720–72 · Etching and engraving
Design for an Urn
1725–72 · Etching
Frontispiece (1738–45)
1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Two Children, One Holding a Basket with Flowers
1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Three Children with a Fruit Plate
1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Three Children Among Clouds Near a Palm Leaf
1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Three Children Among Clouds Carrying a Drapery
1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Design for a vase with a faun and a nymph, from Livre de Vases (Book of Vases), plate 10
1742–50 · Etching
Pastorale
18th century · Etching and engraving
Chinoiserie scene with figures in a landscape
18th century · Etching and engraving
Contadina, plate 11 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet"
18th century · Etching and engraving
Contadina, plate 7 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet"
18th century · Etching and engraving
Tea
ca. 1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Seated Woman with Children and Servants
ca. 1738–45 · Etching and engraving
Man and Woman Reading
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Child Reaching for a Caged Bird
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Two Women Leading a Child toward a Teapot on a Table near a Pond
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
A Seated Chinese Man and a Woman Carrying a Fish
ca. 1742 · Etching and stippling
The Toilet
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Flautist and a Child Timpanist
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Bells
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Cormorant Fishing
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Chinese Man and Woman
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving
Woman Showing Curiosities to Soldier
ca. 1742 · Etching and engraving