Putti playing before a herm
date: label: Date
content: 1750–1752
name: label: Artist
content: Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A child sits in the middle ground upon a goat, with four other beside it. In the foreground kneels, at right, a child besides some objects which lie upon the ground. He is shown from the back. At left sits a child upon a block and blows a Pan's flute. In the background are: a tree with a cloth in its branches, a Paris hermae, an altar with a pitcher. Framing lines. Verso: "At left are sketches in two rows, probably connected with a picture representing the Virgin with the Child, and St. John. At right is a row with sketches for a flying angel. The lower part of the lowest row of the sketches has been cut away.
place: label: made in
content: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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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: 1931-64-96
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, white heightening on laid paper; Verso: Black chalk, pen and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33.7 × 17.1 cm (13 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)