Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon.
date: label: Date
content: 1710
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Third plate from a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King’s apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King’s Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The plate depicts the ornamental panelling between doors or windows in the Gallery of Apollo at the Louvre. The two central panels and the flanking narrow panels are ornamented with grotesque and arabesque motifs, including strapwork, fleurons, rosettes, masks, acanthus leaves, shells, and fleurs-de-lys. The upper central panel features a canopied platform with a man fighting a bull and a lower round cartouche with cupids sharpening their arrows. The grotesque ornament includes a snake handled vase, baskets of flowers, drapery, and sphinxes. The lower central panel features dolphins, baskets with flowers, and two winged cupids wrestling with bulls. The plate is titled, 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: 1921-6-222-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper