L’ORDRE COMPOSIT
date: label: Date
content: 1768–75
name: label: Designer
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a portico featuring Neoclassical motifs associated with the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece and Rome. Stairs leading up to a door with a pediment and hanging festoon of leaves above, flanked by composite order columns, supporting a frieze with figures above and an arched pediment with a pyramid and sunrays. The whole framed by rectangular panels, sculpted festoons of leaves, and an arch with laurel leaf and ribbon molding, and coffered rosettes. Columns on the sides with sculptures of standing figures above. A cross with clouds and putti atop the arch. The building’s façade features corbels, palm leaf ornament, and panels. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-485-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 28.6 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 17.7 × 14.9 cm (6 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 16.7 × 13.9 cm (6 9/16 × 5 1/2 in.)