Les Anémones, Design for Painted Porcelain Plate, Sèvres

Sepia-toned circular design showing two men in a walled garden beside a bed of flowers, one stooping with a tool while the other walks with a cane. A pagoda-like tower, iron fence and tall poplars sit beyond, with a woman and child at a doorway on the right. The title Les Anémones is lettered beneath.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1821–24

Medium

Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper, mounted on blue-gray paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1583 × 1600 px

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