Title Page
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: Title page from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. The title is lettered above a set of double doors, on a banner held up by two flying putti. The double-doors are set within an arch, framed by pilasters. The lunette or tympanum features the French royal coat of arms surrounded by arms and armor. The lintel is fluted with a central corbel decorated with an acanthus leaf ornament. The doors are decorated with two carved panels, the upper panels feature a roundel of the king’s cypher (crowned interlaced L’s), and the lower panels each have carved military trophies featuring arms and armor (shields, swords, quivers of arrows, hung from ribbons). A scale below the design. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-353-1
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