Panel of Arabesques for the Hôtel de Salm, Paris
date: label: Date
content: 1785
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French, 1746–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a wall panel. At the bottom, two satyrs sacrifice flowers at the foot of a burning candelabrum. The satyrs support, with their heads, two half female figures (half female and half flower stem). The figures hold a medallion with a maenad. A putto, supporting a vase, stands on top of the medallion. At the very to center of the composition are two billing doves and at the edges two putti. The putti hold festoons and garlands from which then flower baskets are suspended. The doves hold long garlands, which are then connected to two female figures (one at each side of the central composition). These female figures in turn stand on long decorative spears, which rest on the end tips of the half female figures.
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-219
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gouache, black chalk on toned paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 43 x 10.1cm (16 15/16 x 4in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mount: 46.8 x 13.8 cm (18 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Frame: 60.3 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 in. x 17 5/8 in. x 1 in.)