Face et Profil d'un Confident Orné de Sculptures
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a couch with a large central seating area and two smaller side seats that face away. This couch was called a "Confidant," referring the ability for the sitters to have discreet conversations with one another, without facing each other. The couch is decorated with a striped and patterned textile and carved with ornament motifs including rosettes, bead course, lamb tongue, bouquets of flowers in urns, and a central trophy with a plumed helmet, crossed quivers, and branches. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-331-26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper