La Veue (Sight) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)
date: label: Date
content: 1720–1770
name: label: Artist
content: François Boucher, French, 1703–1770
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical scene depicting the sense of sight. Four figures surround a structure with portholes in one side. Two figures peer into the holes. One teeters in the foreground, and an elderly figure is seated atop the structure. Landscape elements and birds surround.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1924-15-136
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 34.1 × 23.4 cm (13 7/16 × 9 3/16 in.)