Door Design
date: label: Date
content: 1755–76
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: D.M, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a set of arched double doors with glass or blank panels (three on each door and one large overdoor panel). The overdoor features the sculpted head of Apollo surrounded by sun clouds and sun rays. The wood frame features rococo ornament, shells, cartouches, rinceaux, c-scrolls, and acanthus leaf motifs, with festoons of flowers and laurel leaves. An over door panel features two putti with flowers. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-419-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper