VENUS OU LA COQUETTERIE
date: label: Date
content: 1782
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An allegorical arabesque panel design representing the Roman goddess of love Venus or flirtations, featuring putto, a hand fan, birds, festoons of leaves and pearls or beads, vases of flowers, scrolling leaves, a colonnade with an oval medallion in the center with the three muses (three standing nude women), two large sphynxes above the columns and entablatures, and vases with other vessels in between the columns. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
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: 1921-6-396-38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper