A Family in a Landscape
date: label: Date
content: 1773
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder, French, 1744 - 1831
label: Publisher
content: Le Père et Avaulez, Paris, 1772–1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate from a series of chinoiserie scenes with figures in a landscape. A family stand together in the middle of a landscape, a woman and man hold a small child with two other small children at their feet. To their right, an arched structure with a hanging embroidered banner with a woman standing within, looking out at the family. The scene is in a landscape with trees, rocks, foliage, and agricultural tools. The plate is signed and dated.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-379-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper