Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1749-1761
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an altar. On the left side of the plate, a large architectural frame with a Corinthian capital has at its center a carved trophy of liturgical instruments hanging from a lion head mascaron. At the pediment is a carved cartouche supported by a winged angel. On the right side of the plate, the large architectural frame stands over an altar with a baldachin held aloft by a winged angel. At the pediment is a kneeling, winged angel who looks up at a scene of Christ's descent from the cross. The plate is signed and numbered, and a graphite inscription at the bottom of the plate indicates that this was a design for the Abbey of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
place: 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: 1921-6-216-45
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper