Design for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper left, a vertical arabesque motif which includes a winged figure terminating in vine tendrills, and above a vase flanked by herms. Lower left, a corner motif of a ceiling cove with two sirens flanking a disc supporting a circular panel, and below, another siren, from which garlands are suspended, and clutching the tails of the sirens above. Right, a vertical panel with a standing draped classical figure between vases, whose headdress is made up of a series of arabesques, a brazier, flanking griffins, and a winged half-figure with a bird on its head.
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: 1911-28-198
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with ink wash, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.1 × 20.6 cm (12 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)