Le Printems
date: label: Date
content: 1769–75
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Author
content: Charles-François Saint-Lambert, French, 1716 – 1803
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Headpiece for an edition of Les Saisons, Poëme by Charles-François Saint-Lambert. The headpiece represents the season of spring. A roundel in the center illustrating a young man ploughing a field with cows or animals and trees in the background. The roundel or medallion is framed by an overlapping frieze with zodiac signs (Gemini, Taurus, and Aries), foliate branches with flowers, birds, wheat, leaves, quiver of arrows, vase of flowers, and a flying butterfly and insect to the right. The plate is titled and signed.
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: 1921-6-438-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 28 × 42.2 cm (11 × 16 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.1 × 21.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 12.2 × 19.1 cm (4 13/16 × 7 1/2 in.)