Caption
L'Officieux Valet, Beaded seed with kitchen utensils, Third series of seeded seed and serrated ornaments, Troisième Livre de formes Cartels et Rocailles, print, album page, ornamental print, Series number, 7, This series is numbered with a letter C in the upper left corner. Print is part of an album., printmaker: Antoine Aveline, after design by François-Thomas Mondon, publisher: Étienne Charpentier, Paris, grantor of privilege: Louis XV of France, France, 1736, Antoine Aveline, François-Thomas Mondon, Étienne Charpentier, Louis XV of France, printmaker, after design by, publisher, grantor of privilege, paper, etching, engraving, height 234 mm x width 183 mm, rocaille ornament, kitchen utensils, A detailed monochrome engraving shows an ornate arrangement of carved scrollwork and shell-like curves dominating the upper center, with flowing acanthus leaves and floral sprigs emerging from the decorative forms. Interspersed among the ornamentation are kitchen and dining objects including a lidded vessel on legs, a handled cup, bowls, a round covered dish, and various utensils. A broom or brush with bound bristles and a spoon are visible among the objects. A large cabbage or head of lettuce and other produce sit near the center foreground. To the left a small human figure leans toward the lidded vessel, and a second small figure stands nearby. In the upper right a bird hangs upside down near the carved scroll, and a cat’s head peers upward from the ornamentation. The engraving is rendered with fine parallel hatching and crosshatching lines that create texture and shading across the composition.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B25_469
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Rights managed
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