Pompe funèbre de Marie Thérèse d’Espagne Dauphine de France, en l’église de Notre Dame de Paris, le XXIV novembre M.D.CCXLVI
date: label: Date
content: 1756
name: label: Office of
content: Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France
label: Sculptor
content: Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754
label: Sculptor
content: Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758
label: Designer
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Interior view of the cathedral of Notre Dame during the funeral ceremony for Marie Thérèse of Spain in Paris, France. Highly decorated interior with vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows, candelabra, and drapery. On a mezzanine level, large arched niches similar to opera boxes full of seated figures. At the center of each arch, a large ornamented escutcheon surmounted by a crown. At the ground level, crowds of figures sit and stand for the service. An ornate baldachin at center, the columns of which are decorated with many candelabra. At the center of the baldachin is a sculptural group: two classical female figures with a large urn decorated with festoons between them. Above the baldachin, a large hanging canopy, the fabric of which is decorated with a pattern of diamonds, the top of which is decorated by a skull. A row of monks sit in the center foreground in traditional costume, viewed from behind. Some of the monks as well as the men at left and right sides hold long rifles.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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: 1921-6-205-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper