LE GALANT
date: label: Date
content: 1723-1735
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
label: Publisher
content: François Chereau the elder, French, 1680 - 1729
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page of arabesque ornamentation framing a central vignette of a well-dressed couple in a landscape, with the standing man holding out a bouquet of flowers to a seated woman who brings a folded fan to her face. The scene is framed by caryatids, a theatrical mascaron, drapery, vases, and scrolls. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-224-58
objectType: 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