Design for a Bedroom Armoire in Louis XVI Style (Armoire pour un chambre à coucher riches, Style Louis XVI)
date: label: Date
content: 1873–79
name: label: Artist
content: Alexandre-Eugène Prignot, French, 1822–after 1875
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Armoire with tall doors with elaborate carving and marquetry. On tall center panel masks with plumed headdress are flanked by suspended musical trophies. Below two putti holding musical instruments, seated upon a tri-partite banner. Upper and lower panels decorated with hinges in acanthus leaf motif. Top of armoire displays ewers with helmet spouts which flank a mounted potpourri vase. Armoire is set in front of a carved wood paneled wall. Cast shadows throughout.
place: label: made 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: Museum purchase
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1987-86-1
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, color pencil, brush and watercolor on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 42.3 x 24.3 cm (16 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)