# L'Hiver

- By: Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
- Date: 1723-1735
- Medium: Etching on laid paper
- Classification: Bound print
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/27246)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/310a0c2023b76b218276f5c0da456ef5.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.