The Kiss Accepted
date: label: Date
content: 1760–1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A stylishly dressed man embraces a woman whose husband stands are right. Surrounded by trees, rocaille, and a framing of rocaille, shells, fruits, etc., with an escutcheon top center, with: "LE BAISÉ DONNÉ / Guillot passoit un jour avec sa Marié le Seigneur du village (?) à la charge dautant très volontiers / elle est bien a votre service / sans d'autres compliments / le galant fit l'Office". In an escutcheon, bottom center: "OSCULUM ACCEPTUM / d'um sequitur Galatea sum nova sponsa Menal / cum Villorum princeps… / … / … / Dat Galatea viro". Below: "à Paris chez Basset rue st. Jacques au coin de la rue des Mathurins".
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-22-282
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 59.4 × 83 cm (23 3/8 × 32 11/16 in.)