DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR WATEAU
date: label: Date
content: 1723-1735
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, French, 1692 – 1765
label: Publisher
content: Edmé-François Gersaint, French, 1694 – 1750
label: Publisher
content: Louis Surugue, French, 1686–1762
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the lid of a harpsichord with an oval vignette of a costumed man plaing the violin while a woman dances. Across the top is additional ornament with scrolls, monkeys performing human activities (singeries), dogs, birds, and vines. There is also another oval vignette of a young man and woman sitting and talking. 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: 1921-6-224-105
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