File:Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, 1824 (CH 18632371).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, 1824   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, 1824
Description
English: Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Setting in a museum. Figure of a man in a top hat, left foreground, points to a large painting on the wall of a man holding a knife above a lion. The top-hatted man is asking two ladies, right foreground, if they want an explanation of the painting--he raises his left arm to point at it. Through a doorway, left background, museum visitors view double-hung paintings on the walls.
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
Dimensions 20.2 x 15.3 cm (7 3/4 x 6 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1989-13-42
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, on support above image: Le lion; below image: Si l'histoire vous interesse je../ Voluntiers est-elle longue? (If the story interests you I... / Sure, is it long?); in graphite, upper right corner of mount: 7
  • Country: France
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