Les ieux plaisris de l'enfance
Jacques Stella|Claudine Bouzonnet Stella
1657 · Medium unknown · Drawings and Prints
Claudine Bouzonnet Stella succeeded her late uncle, Jacques Stella, as the head of her family’s print workshop at the Louvre royal palace in 1657. That year, she engraved and published Stella’s designs for fifty scenes of putti playing games, including the one seen here. This book circulated throughout Europe, eventually serving as a visual source for the eighteenth-century decorative arts. The Met’s tea service produced by the Doccia porcelain manufactory (46.103a, b) features a game of piggyback taken from one of Bouzonnet Stella’s engravings, titled Le cheval fondu. Yasemin Altun, June 2024
- Artist
- Jacques Stella|Claudine Bouzonnet Stella
- Date
- 1657
- Medium
- Medium unknown
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
