L’Officieux Valet
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Publisher
content: Étienne Charpentier, French, 1704 – 1793
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A print featuring rococo ornament made up of c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, shell motifs, fluting, feathers, and a cartouche with intertwined sprigs, and a bird and cat hanging from the top right of the ornament. In the foreground cookware, pots, pans, cabbage, wheat, and leaves. A cat looks up at the hanging animals from behind the ornament. To the left, in the background, a large, lidded pot or vessel on legs, with a man standing next to it and a woman kneeling next to him. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-518-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper