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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean-Charles Develly1824

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at entrance to a church. Figures of a bride and groom, left middleground, exit the church. A niche, right background, displays a sculpture of the Virgin and Child. Two ladies, right foreground. gossip to each other: "he's old enough for an affair...ha the poor husband-!..."

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  • Title: Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
  • Creator: Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sèvres, France, founded 1738
  • Date Created: 1824
  • Location Created: France
  • Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/191029
  • Medium: Pen and brown/black ink, brush and brown/black wash, pink/tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
  • Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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