Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden
date: label: Date
content: 1738–49
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four figures in a fantastical garden landscape with chinoiserie style figures and motifs. The figures are standing on a platform with a balustrade behind and a large plinth to the left with a child and a cat seated above. A female figure points to a seated figure holding a large stick with birds perched above. A standing figure to the right points up to the seated child and holds a fan. The figures are framed by fantastical flowers and trees in the background, with an ewer, vase, and a ruined fluted column in the foreground. The motifs and the figures are in the chinoiserie style, derived from the French word for Chinese (Chinois), used to describe a European style of ornament associated with the Rococo, inspired by Chinese, Japanese and other Asian artistic traditions. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-522-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper