Three Frieze Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1655–82
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A large frieze above two smaller frieze designs with putti, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), arms (weapons) and armor, palm leaves, foliate branches, mascaron (mask), shell, and the royal cipher with interlaced L’s topped with a crown. The publisher’s address is lettered below.
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: 1921-6-341-96
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 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.1 × 20.8 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.5 × 19.9 cm (5 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)