Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of 1938-88-1317. The pedestal is replaced by an angular base, upon whose projecting front part sits a woman, supporting with her right hand the medallion standing upon her right leg, and with her left the chalice with the host above it. Beside her kneels at right a putto carrying a book. The inscription stands upon a band, supporting the shaft. No entablature.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1319
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)