Rocaille Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: after 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A print from a series of seven designs for trophies, rococo ornament and vignettes. Two figures within a fantastical rococo garden landscape. The men look at sheets of paper with rococo designs on them surrounded by attributes related to the arts. Behind them, a wall with rococo motifs, c-scrolls, shell, and acanthus leaves. The wall incorporates a balustrade, cartouches and a female bust. In front of the figures, a male nude sculpture, and to their right, a sculpture on a plinth with a male portrait, surrounded by a sculpture of a putto, books, artistic tools, such as a palette and paint brushes, a caliper, a hammer, and a globe. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-531-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper