Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville
date: label: Date
content: 1739
name: label: Designer
content: Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766
label: Publisher
content: François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A festival print illustrating the façade of an ephemeral structure made in Paris for a firework display in honor of a peace between France and Spain in 1739. The façade of the structure is decorated with a classical arch, pilasters, roundels, c-scrolls, cartouches, sculptures on plinths and in the niche of the arch. Above the arch is a broken pediment with a cartouche of the interlaced L’s. Flaming vases and urns as finials and on plinths. Above the pediment, stairs leading up to a balustrade and an obelisk above, decorated with cartouches and a putto. Figures stand on each level of the structure. Clouds and birds in the background. The title, description and the address are lettered below.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
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: 1921-6-235-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper