VIOSSEU ou Musicien Chinois
date: label: Date
content: 1731
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Michel-Guillaume Aubert, French, ca. 1700–1757
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Caillou Chéreau, French, active 1729–1755
label: Publisher
content: Louis Surugue, French, 1686–1762
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sheet printed with two plates of chinoiserie. The plate on the left depicts a landscape in which an older, exoticized Chinese man tunes an instrument; the plate on the right depicts an exoticized Chinese woman seated in a landscape with a child. The plate is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-224-78
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper