Fountain with Atlas and Hercules
date: label: Date
content: 1799
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
label: After
content: Charles Le Brun, French, 1619–1690
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. The figure of Hercules sitting on top of a rock, receives the globe from the crowned Atlas standing beside him at left. The signs of the stars and of the Zodiac decorate the globe's surface. Water pours from the globe and from between the stones at the base of the fountain. Two framing lines.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-637
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray, black wash on light blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 43.4 × 30 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)