Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1768
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of Neoclassical altarpieces with a design for an altarpiece featuring a large central painting with figures in clouds, flanked by columns and a roof supported by corbels topped with four smoking/ flaming vases, and a large central angel holding a hanging lantern surrounded by clouds and sun rays. In front of the painting, on a large plinth, a tabernacle topped with a crucifix decorated with rococo motifs. A scale below the design. The plate is signed, numbered, and titled.
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: 1921-6-293-10
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