Design for a Cartouche and Representation of Hearing, plate 3 from "Ne
An etched Rococo cartouche of sweeping acanthus scrolls frames a central scene of a seated figure with a lyre, surrounded by attentive animals in a shadowed wooded setting. Lettering along the bottom reads Das Gehör and Auditur, naming the sense of hearing.
Look closer: Small seated animals and a figure at the lower left, nearly hidden among the scrolls.
- Artist
- Johann Georg Pintz
- Date
- printed ca. 1750–56
- Medium
- Etching
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 4000 × 2803 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1761).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014