Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1650–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of alcove designs. The title is lettered in a cartouche in the lower center, framed by a garland of leaves and ribbons, and scrolling foliage. A highly ornate half-tester bed in the center set within an alcove, walls hung with tapestries. The alcove is framed by herm columns supporting festoons of fruit and leaves and the central curtain and a balustrade. With a sculpted eagle in the center. The doors on either side are decorated with ornate paneling, and overdoors with oval profile portraits. Many figures in the foreground and around the bed, gesturing towards the bed. The backboard of the bed features a mask, and male figures holding the bed curtain. A scale below the title cartouche. The plate is 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: 1921-6-341-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.6 × 21.1 cm (5 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 14 × 21.1 cm (5 1/2 × 8 5/16 in.)