Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX
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: Divided design for a door for the Italian-style living room, designed by Oppenord in this series as plate CIX (1921-6-216-75). The left side of the plate features a full figure statue of a man atop a pedestal with mascaron, goat head, and garlands; above the closed door is a painting of mythological subject matter and carvings of sphinxes and grotesques. The right side of the panel has an open door looking out onto a garden with a statue of Venus in the manner of Botticelli; the door is framed by an engaged column with lion head mascarons and is topped by a crowned cartouche. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-216-77
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