Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at entrance to a church. Figures of a bride and groom, left middleground, exit the church. A niche, right background, displays a sculpture of the Virgin and Child. Two ladies, right foreground. gossip to each other: "he's old enough for an affair...ha the poor husband-!..."
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
1824
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
1989-13-43
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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