Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol
date: label: Date
content: 1738–49
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a cartouche with chinoiserie style motifs, formed by scrolling and undulating acanthus leaves, festoons of leaves and flowers, feathers, shell motif, a parasol, and an architectural base. A few trees in the background and rocks in the foreground. Three seated figures. The figure to the left, holds up a bird perched on his hand, the figure to the right is seated on a plinth, wearing a hat, next to him a figure with an animal head (possibly a monkey head) and legs with a male torso and arms. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-522-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper