Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin
date: label: Date
content: 1740-1768
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Étienne Fessard, French, 1714–1777
label: Publisher
content: Étienne Fessard, French, 1714–1777
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Bookbinder
content: Georges Canape, French, 1864 – 1940
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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 six prints from the second suite. The Bouquet of Flowers dedicated to the Duchess of Chevreuse is missing several plates.
label: Description
content: Half leather binding with marbled boards, spine lettered in gold ‘ CHARLES GERMAIN DE SAINT AUBIN’, and marbled endpapers. Binding signed, with binder’s stamp ‘CANAPE’ on upper right margin, recto of first flyleaf of upper cover.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-402
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bound volume of etchings on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 40.8 × 25.7 × 1.1 cm (16 1/16 × 10 1/8 × 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Open: 40.8 × 50.8 cm (16 1/16 × 20 in.)