Interior Alcove
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1651
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Jean Le Blond, French, ca.1594 – 1666
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior alcove with a canopy bed hung with bed curtains and topped with feather finials. The back wall is lined with a tapestry. There is a central female figure with a man bowing towards her and another to the right. The alcove is framed by a rectangular opening decorated with ornate sculpted moldings, friezes, and a balustrade. A curtain is drawn back. In the upper center of the alcove opening, a roundel with a profile portrait topped by two female figures, and festoons of leaves. Doors on either side of the alcove, decorated with paneling and sculpted herm angels. The overdoors are decorated with panels with large, lidded vases, with fruit and leaves, masks, and festoons of leaves.
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: 1921-6-341-8
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 × 26.6 cm (7 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19.2 cm (5 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.1 × 19 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)