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François Boucher and the art of conchology
04/2016 | 1357 | 158
Pages: 254-263
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Mulherron, Jamie (Mulherron, Jamie)
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Illustrations
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14. Perseus and Andromeda, etched by François Boucher and finished in burin by Pierre Aveline. 1734 (British Museum, London)
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15. Frontispiece by Claude Duflos after François Boucher to E.-F. Gersaint: Catalogue raisonné de Coquilles et autres Curiosités Naturelles, Paris 1736 (Courtesy Ader, Paris)
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16. Frontispiece to A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742, by Pierre Quentin Chedel after François Boucher (Private collection)
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17. Vis, plate 14 in A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742 (Private collection)
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18. Pourpres, plate 19 in A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742 (Private collection)
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19. Oreilles de Mer, plate 7 in A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742 (Private collection)
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20. Murex ou Rochers, plate 17 in A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742 (Private collection)
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21. Murex ou Rochers, plate 18 in A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville: L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie, dont l'une traite de pierres et l'autre des coquillages, Paris 1742 (Private collection)
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22. Triton and nereid holding up a shell and a triton blowing a conch, plate 5 from the Premier Livre de Fontaines, by Gabriel Huquier after François Boucher. 1736 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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23. Detail of Three putti sitting on dolphins and two tritons, plate 7 from the Second Livre de Fontaines, by Pierre Aveline after François Boucher. 1736 (Private collection)
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24. Rocaille, by Claude Duflos after François Boucher. Arabesque from a set of five designs for leaves of a folding screen. 1737 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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25. Frontispiece to F. Bonanni: Recreatio Mentis et Oculis In Observatione Animalium Testaceorum, Curiosis Naturae Inspectoribus, Rome 1684 (Private collection)
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26. Murex senis appendicibus canaliculatis decorus, from F. Bonanni: Recreatio Mentis et Oculis In Observatione Animalium Testaceorum, Curiosis Naturae Inspectoribus, Rome 1684 (Private collection)
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27. Detail of The birth of Venus, by François Boucher. 1741 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
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28. Study for a triton holding a shell, by François Boucher. 1752 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Weimar)
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29. Detail of The setting of the sun, by François Boucher. 1752 (Wallace Collection, London)
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30. Detail of the frontispiece, by Antonio Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, to N. Gualtieri: Index Testarum Conchyliorum, Florence 1742 (Private collection)
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31. Detail of The setting of the sun, by François Boucher. 1752 (Wallace Collection, London)
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32. Holy water stoup formed of a giant clam shell and a base made by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. 1745 (Saint-Sulpice, Paris)
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33. Detail of The rising of the sun, by François Boucher. 1753 (Wallace Collection, London)
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34. Study for a triton, by François Boucher. 1752 (Art Institute of Chicago)
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35. Detail of Juno commands Aeolus to unleash the winds, by François Boucher (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth)
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36. Detail of Venus on the waves, by François Boucher. 1769 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
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37. Murex maximus, by Teresa Mogalli, plate 34 in N. Gualtieri: Index Testarum Conchyliorum, Florence 1742 (Private collection)