# LES SINGES DE MARS

- 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/27317)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/186ad884ac2ddd1619f624dabc9fc0ea.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.