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
- Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
- Bookbinder
- Georges Canape, French, 1864 – 1940
- 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 six prints from the second suite. The Bouquet of Flowers dedicated to the Duchess of Chevreuse is missing several plates.
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- 1740-1768
- 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
