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Gabriel Huquier (1695–1772) was an entrepreneurial French drawer (artist), engraver, printmaker, publisher, and art collector, who became a pivotal figure in the production of French 18th-century ornamental etchings and engravings

Biography

Huquier moved to Paris from Orléans in 1727 and opened a workshop, ''Aux armes d'Angleterre'' at rue Saint-Denis in the vicinity of the Grand Châtelet, advertising in the ''Mercure de France''. In 1734, he etched the first print after

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, ''Andromeda'', which was followed by many others. Altogether, Huquier published over eighty of Boucher's prints, including his chinoseries. Huquier became a prominent engraver and designer of ornament in an advanced

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taste, working from about 1731 until his apparent retirement in 1761. He engraved

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'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,

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and many other contemporary painters and designers. Huquier was 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.

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 collections of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Huquier, Gabriel 1695 births 1772 deaths French draughtsmen French art dealers 18th-century French engravers French art collectors 18th-century art collectors 18th-century French philanthropists People from Orléans French etchers 18th-century etchers