La Mariée à la Grecque
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: After
content: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801
label: Print Maker
content: Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print titled ‘La Mariée à la Grecque’, from a series of 10 plates featuring fanciful costumes inspired by Ancient Greek and Roman ornament and architectural motifs. A standing female figure wears a costume and headdress, resembling a large, lidded vase, featuring gadroon, wave and fluting ornament with Greek key friezes, garlands of flowers and laurel leaves, tassels, and ribbons. Her arms are in the shape of cornucopia of fruit, and she has a sheep head on either side of her hips. The plate is titled, signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Parma, Italy
label: published in
content: Milan, Italy
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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: 1921-6-471-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper