Gabriel Huquier

Gabriel Huquier, Jacques Gabriel Huquier ( born May 9, 1695 in Orléans, † June 11, 1772 ) was a French artist, engraver, engraver, art dealer and art collector, where a significant role in spreading the Rococo style is attributed.

Life

Huquier spent his childhood and youth in his home town of Orléans, before he permanently settled around 1720 in Paris, not to maintain contacts in Orléans without his life.

In Paris he worked on the one hand as an efficient Ornamentradierer, on the other hand as being advised of the owner of a thriving art trade with numerous customers and also contributed as a passionate art lover an important collection of original drawings and illustrations together.

Huquier soon found access to the circle of artists, art lovers and critics, who together found himself in the Parisian hôtel particulier weekly (City Palace) or the country house of the wealthy art collector and patron Pierre Crozat. This he served alongside Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737) and Bernard Picart (1673-1733) as an agent for the purchase of larger collections.

As a recognized art expert Huquier exercised great influence. With extraordinary generosity he let art lovers and especially young artists benefit from his profound knowledge, she advised and made them on certain days the collections of his lover Cabinet accessible, to allow them to study the works and copying.

He died in 1772 at the age of 77 years.

His pastel portrait on blue background " Le graveur Gabriel Huquier " ( 1747 ) created Jean -Baptiste Perronneau, who is also the " Portrait de Mademoiselle Huquier " (both in Paris at the Musée du Louvre) recorded, formerly known as " Petite fille au chat " was, and the portrait of Huqiers son Jacques -Gabriel Huquier (1730-1803 or 1805), who took as his father the trade of engraver and copperplate engraver and beyond worked as a painter.

Work

Huquiers was particularly interested ornament drawings. He created numerous etchings by Claude Gillot (1673-1722), Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean -Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), Jacques de Lajoue (1686-1761), Juste Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), François Boucher (1703-1770) and other French masters. Furthermore, he stabbed architectural drawings by Gilles -Marie Oppenord (1672-1742), of which there were more than 2,000 in his personal possession.

Collection Huquier

Two big auctions with works from the rich collection of the collector already took place during his lifetime and indeed in Amsterdam ( 1761) and in Paris ( 1771), two more in 1772, after his death.