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Ornamental Vignette of a Fête Champêtre
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
Scene of a rural festival (a fête champêtre) attended by well-dressed individuals and Commedia dell'arte characters. The plate is not signed, nor is it found within the original four volumes of the Recueil Jullienne.
