LES JARDINS DE BACHUS
date: label: Date
content: 1723-1735
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Caillou Chéreau, French, active 1729–1755
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scene of an altar with a radiant bunch of grapes in the middle of a landscape, in which figures can be seen dancing, drinking wine, and playing the tambourine. The vignette is framed by ornamentation, with motifs including masks of satyrs and Bacchus, garlands, pinecones, terms, vines, scrolling acanthus leaves, and a lower central cartouche help up by a goat and a panther. The plate is 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: 1921-6-224-68
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