Fountain Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
date: label: Date
content: 1540–1560
name: label: Attributed to
content: Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550
label: Circle of
content: Rosso Fiorentino, Italian,1494 - 1540
label: Engraver
content: René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625
label: Engraver
content: Pierre Milan, French, 1500 - 1557
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fontainebleau school. Design for a metalwork fountain, the top decorated with children with tridents sitting on sea shells. Below, scenes of Acteon and Diana from Ovid’s Metamorphosis are interspaces with urinating putti. The base decorated with masks, garlands and alternating snails and turtles.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-470-6
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper