Woman at her Toilette
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 scenes with figures in a landscape. Under a canopy of embroidered textiles, a woman in a western dress sits at a round table looking at herself in a mirror, at her toilette with small, lidded pots on the table, the mirror is supported by a small child. Two men dressed in chinoiserie style dress with swords peer through a hole in the canopy to look at the woman. The scene is in a landscape with trees, rocks, and foliage. The plate is 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: 1921-6-379-24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper