Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance

Designer Designed by Jacques Stella French

Engraver Engraved and published by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella French

1657

Not on view

Claudine Bouzonnet Stella succeeded her late uncle, Jacques Stella, as the head of her family’s print workshop at the Louvre royal palace in 1657. That year, she engraved and published Stella’s designs for fifty scenes of putti playing games, including the one seen here. This book circulated throughout Europe, eventually serving as a visual source for the eighteenth-century decorative arts. The Met’s tea service produced by the Doccia porcelain manufactory (46.103a, b) features a game of piggyback taken from one of Bouzonnet Stella’s engravings, titled Le cheval fondu.

Yasemin Altun, June 2024

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance
Designer: Designed by Jacques Stella (French, Lyons 1596–1657 Paris)
Engraver: Engraved and published by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella (French, Lyons 1636–1697 Paris)
Date: 1657
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Object Number: 62.652.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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