L'Agreable lecon ou L'Art d'Amier
date: label: Date
content: 1785–90
name: label: Producer
content: Petitpierre Freres
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scenes of love: a shepherd teaching a shepherdess to play a pipe next to t lion topped plinth inscribed "L'AGREABLE LECON", one woman instructing another woman following a text in a book called "L'ART D'AIMER" held up by Cupid, Cupid pointing out a pair of mating birds to a woman sketching, a child playing the bagpipes to animals, children catching eels, and classical ruins. In red on white.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-146
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Panel
label: Type
content: Panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 79.5 x 178 cm (31 5/16 in. x 5 ft. 10 1/16 in.)