Interior Alcove
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1651
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Jean Le Blond, French, ca.1594 – 1666
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the wall of an interior alcove with a lower balustrade, central opening and two doorway openings on either side. The doors are framed with a repeat pattern, with a central ornamental panel above decorated with a cartouche featuring a shell, garland of laurel leaves and gadrooning below. The central opening includes corbels on either side featuring angels holding a festoon of laurel leaves across. Above a cartouche with a male mask with cornucopia of fruit. Above, a frieze of leaves runs across with paneling above decorated with ornament featuring leaves, flowers, fleurs-de-lys and a central eagle.
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: 1921-6-341-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19.1 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.4 × 19.2 cm (5 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.2 × 19 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)