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Name
  
Gabriel Huquier

Children
  
James Gabriel Huquier

Gabriel Huquier
Died
  
June 11, 1772, Paris, France

The entrepreneurial printseller Gabriel Huquier (1695–1772), established in rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, was a prominent engraver and designer of ornament in an advanced Rococo taste, a pivotal figure in the production of French 18th-century ornamental etchings and engravings who was himself a collector of works of art, whose collections were dispersed at three great auction sales, in Amsterdam, 1761, in Paris, 1771, and after his death, in Paris, 1772. He was working from about 1731 until his apparent retirement in 1761. He engraved Watteau's designs, interpreting and adapting them so that he became the main source through whom Watteau's ornament was known in the 18th century and went on to etch and engrave designs of Jacques de Lajoue, Francois Boucher, Gilles-Marie Oppenord, Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, Alexis Peyrotte, Nicolas Pineau and many other contemporary painters and designers.

Legacy

His son Jacques (or James) Gabriel Huquier (1730–1805) known as Huquier fils, was also an engraver, as well as a portrait painter.

Works by Huquier are held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

References

Gabriel Huquier Wikipedia


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