Monkey Playing a Violin
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1710–1720
name: label: Style of
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Monkey wearing a feathered cap stands on one foot facing right and plays a violin. Verso: rendering of an 18th-century Italian vase with a mask.
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 Garnier Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-65-145
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red chalk on cream laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink with gray wash.
label: Dimensions
content: 21.3 x 14.4 cm (8 3/8 x 5 11/16 in. )