A Man with a Basket of Vegetables
date: label: Date
content: 1759-76
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Charles Canot, French, 1710 - 1777
label: Publisher
content: Pierre-François Basan, French, 1723 – 1797
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A chinoiserie-style print from a series of allegorical representations of the twelve months of the year, depicting October. A male figure stands in the middle of a landscape, leaning against a railing with a basket of vegetables on his head. There is a trellised pergola, supporting a vase with flowers to his right. Tall coconut trees stand in the background. The plate is numbered and 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: 1921-6-214-4
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