Lit à Colonnes dans le gout moderne
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a four-poster canopy bed (view from the side) with upholstered headboard. The bed linen and drapery are decorated with flowers, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, flaming torches, lyre, arrows on shield with a heart, cornucopia of flowers and fruit, and festoons of flowers. The canopy is topped with feather finials. The bed curtains are drawn by and tied to the headposts. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-395-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper