Seated Man
date: label: Date
content: 1773
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder, French, 1744 - 1831
label: Publisher
content: Le Père et Avaulez, Paris, 1772–1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate from a series of chinoiserie prints depicting figures in landscapes with garden canopies in the form of large parasols. A man with a stick stands on a platform looking at a hanging textile with the title lettered in the center. The title banner hangs from a large pole with two circular decorative rings above with hanging garlands of flowers. Trees, flowers, and foliage in the background. The plate is numbered, signed, and dated.
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: 1921-6-379-16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper