LE BASSIN DE CERES
date: label: Date
content: 1675–1703
name: label: Print Maker
content: Adam Perelle, French, 1638 – 1695
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: View of a large basin with a fountain made up of sculptural groups featuring the figure of Ceres surrounded by putti holding sickles and bunches of wheat, representing Summer. The basin edge is lined with bunches of wheat, and the whole is framed within a bosquet (grove) with paths leading outwards. Figures (courtiers), horseman, and gardeners (moving a planted vase in the foreground) throughout the grounds. The plate is titled with a description.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
content: Versailles, 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: 1921-6-533-113
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper