Porte-Cochère Design
date: label: Date
content: 1707-1742
name: label: Designer
content: Laurent Francart, French, active 1681-1690
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a porte-cochère with a bust on an engaged pedestal at the top. Garlands of flowers are draped from the pedestal to the curved pediment on which winged putti climb. The doors have oval medallions in which are mythological depictions of Hercules (with club and lion skin) and Flora (holding a flower). The plate is not signed, but numbered twice.
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: 1921-6-243-26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper