Alcove with Aegeus Preventing Theseus from Drinking Poison
date: label: Date
content: 1658–1703
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An interior scene featuring characters from Roman mythology, a man wearing a crown and a soldier in the center around a table, soldiers behind pointing their spears up at a female figure in the clouds above, other soldiers in the background in an alcove next to a bed and coming through the door to the right. In the foreground, plates, vases, and an ewer. The interior is decorated with leaf moldings, paneling, festoons of fruit, roundels, and statues in niches. A description is lettered below the scene.
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: 1921-6-341-33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19.1 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 16.6 × 22 cm (6 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 14.7 × 21.4 cm (5 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)