Interior Wall Elevation
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A wall elevation featuring rococo and neoclassical motifs. Three large windows with arched over-panels featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, incense burners, shells, draped textiles, rosettes, and foliate branches. The narrow vertical panels on either side of the central window features profile portraits surrounded by winged putti, and festoons of flowers. Below within the panels, vases, flanked by putto and the attributes of the arts – paintbrushes, a palette, and an oval portrait of a female figure. Narrow vertical panels with arabesques of flowers flank the outer windows. The cornice level is decorated with repeating patterns and festoons of flowers tied with ribbons. The plate is numbered and signed with a scale along the right margin of the plate.
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: 1921-6-335-40
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper