# LES JARDINS DE CYTHERE

- 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/27284)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/416560bcaff8570e8ca831243031f036.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Scene of a fountain with anguipeds set in a garden with well-dressed individuals, commedia dell'arte figures, and a winged putto strolling and reclining. The vignette is framed by ornamentation, with motifs including drapery, terms, garlands, cupids with arrows, branches, trophies, dolphins, monkeys playing musical instruments (singeries), and a cartouche at the bottom framing an antique bust. The plate is signed.