Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Artist
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
label: Dedicatee
content: Louis XVI, King of France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below are four curved steps, interrupted laterally by two pedestals with huge vases, either with a burning candle. The main structure of the monument is a pedestal. It has below two offsets, like parts of an octagon at the front. The second has below mouldings of a base and in the central part the shape of a sarcophagus, supported by two lion feet, and with inscription. The next offset is a smaller pedestal with a rectangular base, which is laterally elongated by obliquely standing cubes. Upon either of them stands a female allegory leaning upon the entablature of the central part of the pedestal. This is decorated with a festoon, a mitre, a crozier, and a cross. In front of the base and the lower part of the central part lies a royal crown upon a cushion. The upper part of the pedestal is a lower part of a column, whose shaft has below a leak calyx and above flutes. On top is a woman with a cross beside her, which she supports her left hand. She carries together with a small angel a medallion with a bust portrait. Laterally are parts of the pillars framing the chapel. Scale and background similar to 1938-88-1288.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1289
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 46 x 31.9 cm (18 1/8 x 12 9/16 in.)