L'OPTIQUE
date: label: Date
content: 1737
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Caillou Chéreau, French, active 1729–1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print after an overdoor painting of an allegory of optics. A group of men hold a large mirror on a plinth within a large garden terrace with fountains and columns. Instruments and tools are scattered around them and on the steps below them. Rays of sunlight reflect off the mirror and are starting a fire with pieces of wood on a large plinth of the garden wall behind them. The title is lettered below, and the plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-211-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching and engraving on paper