Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: 1686–1716
name: label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fourth plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented arched double doors with different ornamental panels on each door. The right side features a roundel with the royal cypher (crowned interlaced L’s) above, a small rectangular panel below with a mask and interlaced cornucopia with flowers, and a large blank vertical panel below framed by a repeating pattern. The left side features a roundel above with a coat of arms, a small rectangular panel below with a mask and a festoon of flowers, and a large vertical panel below with a female figure hunting (possibly the goddess Artemis/ Diana), with a dog, framed by a repeating pattern. The lower panels on each door feature a wooden trellis pattern. The center frame is supported by a corbel with a lion mask and decorated with fleurons. The plate is signed and numbered, with a scale below.
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: 1921-6-353-4
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