Design for Porcelain Plate: Le Lion (Leo), Zodiac Service

A pen and brown wash design shows a lion standing upright, embracing a man in a light tunic beside a table with bottles, in a room with an arched window. Below the scene, a handwritten French caption appears in cursive. Pink and tan watercolor and white gouache highlight the figures on cream paper.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1824

Medium

Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1819 × 2240 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum