L’Eté
date: label: Date
content: 1769–75
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Author
content: Charles-François Saint-Lambert, French, 1716 – 1803
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Headpiece for an edition of Les Saisons, Poëme by Charles-François Saint-Lambert. The headpiece represents the season of summer. A roundel in the center illustrating a young man cutting grasses with a scythe with buildings in the background. The roundel or medallion is framed by an overlapping frieze with zodiac signs (Virgo, Leo, and Cancer), trees, wheat, grasses, foliage, leaves, flowers, a bird feeding chicks, a sickle, and a snake. The plate is titled and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-438-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 28.1 × 42.7 cm (11 1/16 × 16 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14 × 21.3 cm (5 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 11.7 × 18.9 cm (4 5/8 × 7 7/16 in.)