LA PEINTURE ET LA SCULPTURE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Nicolas Chalmandrier, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing painting and sculpture from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center within a frame decorated with an egg repeating pattern, and draped with textiles a medal, a garland of flowers, and palm leaves. A standing putto is inscribing the letters while holding a portfolio. At his feet are books, a palette and paintbrushes, a sculpted torso and head, prints, and medals. In the background a portrait bust on a plinth, an easel, trees, and clouds. Below an entablature with hanging garlands of leaves and a panel decorated with palm leaves. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-361-9
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