Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Artist
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
label: Dedicatee
content: Louis XVI, King of France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Most or all designs intended for one of kings, Louis XVI of France. Top row left: a sepulchral chamber with a triangular pediment and with a pyramid rising on top, standing upon a platform. Right: a sarcophagus standing on top of a sepulchral chamber. Bottom row, right: a cinerary urn stands upon a pedestal with several sections upon a platform of the usual design. Above this design was roughly sketched a similar one, lines of the platform cutting along the urn. Left: columns probably intended as candlesticks stand in the front corners of a platform upon which an oblong pedestal stands. Two figures crouch upon it, behind whom a circular pediment rises carrying a cushion with crown and sceptre. The column at right is drawn over the designs at right. Colored background, top row right.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1271
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)