Design for Porcelain Plate, Le Taureau (Taurus), Zodiaque Travesti

A sepia wash design in a ruled border shows a harnessed cow beside a stone doorway, with two women in bonnets and long skirts conversing at right. Handwritten French notes and the title 'Le Taureau' appear on the mount above and below the scene.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1824

Medium

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

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1811 × 2240 px

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