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Ornamental Design from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres", No.2, Inventés et dessinés par Jean Pillement. Gravés par Anne Allen. "
Jean-Baptiste Pillementafter 1775
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Irregular cartouche composed of trees, bridges, and fantastic foliage executed in the chinoiserie style. A small figure balances on a bell laden rope suspended between two platforms at center. A group of three figures watch the performance from a draped bridge at lower left.
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- Title: Ornamental Design from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres", No.2, Inventés et dessinés par Jean Pillement. Gravés par Anne Allen. "
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Pillement
- Creator Lifespan: 1728/1808
- Date Created: after 1775
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching with colored inks à la poupé on off-white laid paper
- Viewing Notes: Irregular cartouche composed of curving tree limbs, bridges, and fantastic foliage executed in the chinoiserie style. A small figure balances on a bell laden rope suspended between two platforms at center. A group of three figures watch the performance from a draped bridge at lower left.
- Signed: In plate lower left, printed in brown ink: Pillement in.In plate lower right, printed in green ink: Anne Allen s.
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Markings: Verso: Blind stamp: Cooper Union Museum New York [Lugt 457e]Registration pin holes at top left corner; lower left corner and lower right corner, all just inside plate mark.
- Inscribed: Lower left inside plate mark, in graphite, arranged vertically: B/2Lower right to right of plate mark, in graphite: B.2 (erased)Lower right corner, in graphite: 5Verso: Lower left in graphite: Nouvelles suites / de cahiers... No.1Lower right in graphite: dupl of / 1938-57-20
- Dimensions: 19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)Platemark: 19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)Sheet: 24.4 x 20 cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
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