Lit à 4 colonnes surmonte d’un baldaquin a 3 dossiers vu de face
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a four-poster canopy (baldachin) bed (front view) with the four posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown above. The crown is topped with feather finials, and scrolling acanthus leaf ornament, with swags of hanging textiles and bed curtains tied to the posts. The bed with equal sized head, foot and sideboard is carved with a leaf finial and scrolling acanthus leaf motifs. The bed linen is floral, with hanging swags of textiles and tassels on a striped background along the skirt. A scale below. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-395-38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on blue laid paper