LE MAITRE DE MUSIQUE
date: label: Date
content: 1743
name: label: Designer
content: Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guelard, French, 1719–ca. 1755
label: Publisher
content: François-Philippe Charpentier, France, 1734–1817
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate 8 of a series of 23 prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. In outdoor setting, a figural scene of a music lesson, the monkey instructor in gentleman's costume teaching his students, who are cats. The monkey holds a sheet of music in his left hand and a scroll in his right hand, directing his pupils. He has a violin strapped across his body. At his feet, one cat holds a sheet of music and looks up at his instructor. The other cat at center plays a dulcimer.
place: 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: 1921-6-319-19
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26 × 31.8 cm (10 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.)