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François Boucher|Pierre Etienne Falconet

Little boy holding a vessel, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher" (First Book of Figures after porcelains from the Manufacture Royale de France, devised in 1757, by Mr. Boucher)

1757
Etching and engraving
24.7 × 19 cm (9.7 × 7.5 in)

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