Interior Alcove with a Bed
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 an interior alcove with a canopy bed hung with bed curtains and feather finials. The walls are lined with tapestries and a couple embracing sit on the edge of the bed. The alcove is framed by an arch and balustrade. The arch is decorated with festoons of laurel leaves and fruit. A central cartouche with a shell, flanked by two female figures, paneling and sculpted molding. Arched doorways flank the central niche, looking out into the landscape. The overdoors are highly ornamented with winged herm figures, paneling, roundel portraits, fluting, wave patterns, and topped with vases. Two figures standing on a balcony to the left, and a view of a sculpture on an exterior balustrade to the right with trees in the background.
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: 1921-6-341-10
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 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19.3 cm (5 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)