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L'Hiver
Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
1723-1735
- Medium
- Etching on laid paper
- Classification
- Bound print
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Page of ornament with a central oval depicting a scene of figures ice-skating on a frozen pond with buildings in the background. The oval has icicles dripping from a frozen fountain at top, and a mascaron of winged Father Time below it. The plate also features ornamental motifs like scrolling acanthus leaves, bat wings, and branches. The plate is signed.
