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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Cutting and Working in the Vineyard

Jean-Charles Develly1819–20

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

In foreground are three male and one female figures of vineyard workers: two men at left are bent over cutting and clearing vines with hoes. A woman in a kneeling position, empties a basket of cuttings into a pile on the ground. A standing man, right forground, drinks from jug. Large tree in left foreground. In distance at right, a small town in a valley with a church steeple. Small sketches in margins, around central image: lower right: a man bending over seen from the rear; right center, [perhaps] kneeling man seen from the rear; lower left, sketches of two hoes; left center, two branches with leaves. Verso: rough sketch, in circular format, of tall trees with sheds beneath; in margin, lower left: circular sketch of landscape; lower right: two people loading or unloading objects from cart.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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