Design for Painted Plate, Les Gémeaux (Gemini), Le Zodiaque Travesti

A brown ink and wash design on cream paper shows a framed vignette: a man in a long coat and hat stands in a doorway beside a second figure, while a baby lies in a cradle near a canopied bed. The handwritten French caption sits below the frame, and the title Les Gémeaux is written above it.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1824

Medium

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

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1781 × 2240 px

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