Children Performing Acrobatics
date: label: Date
content: 1759
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Charles Canot, French, 1710 - 1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print from a series of fourteen chinoiserie vignettes, depicting children playing a variety of games in different landscapes. A child balances on one foot, on the top of a cone, while holding a large pole with rings hanging from strings at both ends. Another child stands to the right, holding a stick with a ring on the ground. A third child sits against a tree trunk, shown from behind, looking at the child acrobat. Stairs lead down from the vignette. The scene is framed by trees, foliage, with a roofed garden structure to the right. The print is signed.
place: label: published in
content: London, England
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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: 1921-6-381-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper