Design for a Bedroom, Hotel de Mailly-Nesle, Paris
date: label: Date
content: 1770–80
name: label: Attributed to
content: Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a bedroom. Only the main wall is depicted. Three steps lead up to an alcove, the center of which is occupied by a bed. The bed is framed by a drapery, pulled back by two female statues. Unevenly spaced columns support the front entablature. Four candelabra stand between the columns. The candelabra are composed of a warrior and a girl supporting trays with candlesticks. The wall behind is richly ornamented with reliefs. Two main relief panels show two figures leaning against large oval medallions. At the top, is a part of a curved ceiling, showing two captives and trophies of weapons, two girls beside an escutcheon, a segment of a painting, the sky, and putti. At the far left is shown a small fragment of the elevation of the alcove niche and a part of a wing of a folding door. At the bottom of the composition is an indication of the scale: 12 Pieds.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1911-28-10
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and wash, over black chalk on paper, lined with two sheets of heavy paper and framed with blue paper colored black and strips of gold paper
label: Dimensions
content: 65.7 × 83.4 cm (25 7/8 × 32 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 71.1 × 91.4 cm (28 × 36 in.)