id: 130139 accession number: 1952.518 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.518 updated: 2025-04-17 19:30:46.436000 Book of Fountains: No. 6: Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells, c. 1736. Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772), after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Etching and engraving; image: 25.1 x 15.1 cm (9 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.); platemark: 27.2 x 17.3 cm (10 11/16 x 6 13/16 in.); sheet: 36 x 26.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Erich Lederer, 1952.518 title: No. 6: Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells title in original language: series: Book of Fountains series in original language: Recueil de Fontaines creation date: c. 1736 creation date earliest: 1731 creation date latest: 1741 current location: creditline: Gift of Erich Lederer copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: etching and engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Fonds Français 18eme siecle XI.457.576-582 --- CREATORS * Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772) - artist * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. * Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772) - publisher --- measurements: Image: 25.1 x 15.1 cm (9 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.); Platemark: 27.2 x 17.3 cm (10 11/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 36 x 26.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Upper right, in plate: 6; lower left, in plate: F. Boucher. In.; lower center, in plate: avec Privilege du Roy; lower right, in plate: Huquier. ex. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). title: Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention opening date: 1987-04-07T04:00:00 Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). title: Imagination in the Age of Reason opening date: 2024-09-28T04:00:00 Imagination in the Age of Reason. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Landau, Ellen G. “‘A Fairytale Circumstance’ the Influence of Stage Design on the Work of François Boucher.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 9 (November 1983): 360–378. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 367-368, fig. 11 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159834 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.518/1952.518_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.518/1952.518_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.518/1952.518_full.tif