L'Afrique
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Print Maker
content: Marie Michelle Blondel, French, active mid 18th century
label: After
content: Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781
label: Publisher
content: Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An allegorical female figure representing Africa from a series of four. The female figure is topless with feathers on her head and seated in a landscape with trees, a lion, snakes, and an elephant in the background. The vignette is framed by a scrolling cartouche with a shell in the upper center. The plate is signed and titled, signed, and dated.
label: Description
content: The artist, Jacques Dumont (Le Romain) painted an overdoor panel of this exact composition, signed and dated 1742, which was originally installed in the Parisian townhouse of Samuel-Jacques Bernard (1686-1753), and now on display in the Rothschild Room in The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (acc. No. 173.69).
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: 1921-6-447-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper