Sketches of an Altar, a Chapel Section, a Capital and Profiles of Cornices
date: label: Date
content: 1692–99
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Vertical rectangle. Top left, corner of a sarcophagus; below, an altar conceived as an a piece of Baroque architecture. At right, the partial elevation of a small chapel with sculptured frame surrounding an altar painting. Below a composite capital and two profiles of cornices and one of a base, developed into Suite VIII, plate 5 and Suite IX, plate 3.
label: Description
content: Verso: Horizontal rectangle. Stage designs: a vaulted gallery and a grotto. Figures shown in both sets. A vertical line divides the two scenes.
label: Description
content: One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-102-3
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with gray wash; verso: pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 211 × 135 cm (6 ft. 11 1/16 in. × 53 1/8 in.)