Album of Floral Bouquets Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1757–68
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Dedicatee
content: Françoise Pauline de La Rochefoucauld, Duchess of Biron, French, 1723 – 1793/94
label: Dedicatee
content: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, French, 1721 – 1764
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for floral bouquets from two incomplete series of prints. Two title pages (one hand colored) with plates 2-4, 7-9, and 12 from BOUQUETS CHAMPETRES, DEDIÉS A MADAME LA MARÉCHALE DE BIRON Par son très Respectueux Serviteur de Saint-Aubin Dessinateur du Roy bound with plate 23 from BOUQUETS CHAMPÊTRES, DEDIÉS A MADAME LA MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR Dame du Palais de la Reine, Par son très respectueux serviteur, de Saint-Aubin, Dessinateur du Roy. Two of the plates are hand colored. Each plate illustrates a bouquet of flowers or sprigs of flowers and leaves with their names lettered below. Plates are titled and numbered.
label: Description
content: Half cloth binding with hand marbled covers, gold lettering on spine: SAINT AUBIN – BOUQUETS CHAMPETRES.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-498
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 29.6 × 23.5 × 0.6 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/4 × 1/4 in.)