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LES SINGES DE MARS
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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Page of ornamentation with a figure of the god of war, Mars, armored and holding a sword at the center. The figure is framed by drapery, branches, scrolls, a bas-relief of a battle, and columns made of cannons. On steps around the columns on either side are monkeys dressed and preparing to light the cannons (singeries). The plate is signed.
