Design for Tapestry
date: label: Date
content: 1720-1750
name: label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Style of
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A lofty central arch is flanked by two lower and narrower ones. A statue of Venus holding an apple accompanied by puttos and birds, is shown under Flora and Zephyr upon clouds, in the center. Cybele and a girl holding a cornucopia and accompanied by a dragon are seated in the foreground beside an anvil with a smith's tools and weapons. At left: Pluto rides in a chariot drawn by dragons over a representation of Autumn, Bacchus as a boy and satyr children. At right: Neptune riding over the sea, over a representation of Winter, an old man warming himself at a fire.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-168
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: 26.7 × 33.9 cm (10 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)