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"L'Escarpolette" (The swing)
Jean-Baptiste Huet1783–89
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Pastoral figures and trophies with birds and animals. Central scene is a woman on a swing framed by two female herms. The swing is pulled by a string held by a young man. In red on white.
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- Title: "L'Escarpolette" (The swing)
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Huët, 1745 – 1811
- Date Created: 1783–89
- Location Created: Jouy, France
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/200732
- Medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave foundation
- Credit line: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
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