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Ornament Design with Shepherd
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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Page of ornament with a central rocaille cartouche comprised of batwings, scrolls, and garlands. At center of the cartouche is a scene of a shepherd reclining in a landscape; rain is about to fall. The plate is signed.
