Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: 1686–1716
name: label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Second plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented double doors with carved panels featuring rosettes, lamb’s tongue and leaf repeat patterns, winged putti masks, drapery, festoons of flowers, trophies with garlands of flowers and palm leaves, s-scrolls, and acanthus leaf motifs, and two central roundels with a man and a woman seated within landscapes. The arched lunette or tympanum features a cartouche with a cypher supported by two winged putti and decorated with festoons and a crown of flowers. Below the lintel, is ornamented with fluting and a rosette frieze with a central corbel decorated with acanthus leaf motifs. Each door features five carved and decorated panels. A scale below the design. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-353-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper