Ornament Vignettes
date: label: Date
content: 1723-1735
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, French, 1692 – 1765
label: Publisher
content: Edmé-François Gersaint, French, 1694 – 1750
label: Publisher
content: Louis Surugue, French, 1686–1762
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sheet printed with two plates. The left plate depicts Venus born upon a cloud surrounded by arabesque ornamentation including reeds, putti, a trellis, doves, dogs, branches, and monkeys (singeries). The right plate is a vignette, first state, of a woman seated under a tree; next to her is a farmer leaning on a space. The scene is surrounded by vines. Both plates are signed.
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: 1921-6-224-102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper