Object Details
- Designer
- Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
- Print Maker
- Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
- Étienne Fessard, French, 1714–1777
- Publisher
- Étienne Fessard, French, 1714–1777
- Marguerite Caillou Chéreau, French, active 1729–1755
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bound volume of prints, in two suites, featuring 8 prints of butterflies acting like humans and 5 flower prints. The Papilloneries Humaines is composed of two volumes of six prints each; the first set is horizontal, the second vertical. This album only contains two of the sex prints from the second suite. The Bouquet of Flowers dedicated to the Duchess of Chevreuse is missing several plates.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- 1740-1757
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-402
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- albums (bound) & books
- Object Name
- Album
- Type
- Album
- Medium
- Bound volume of etchings on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.8 × 25.7 × 1.1 cm (16 1/16 × 10 1/8 × 7/16 in.)
- Open: 40.8 × 50.8 cm (16 1/16 × 20 in.)
- made in
- Paris, France
- published in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1921-6-402
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46ba16b5d-1fc0-44ba-8455-222860720495
