Design for an Altar
date: label: Date
content: 1690
name: label: Designer
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Print Maker
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Gastelier, French, 16..–1698
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an ecclesiastical altar in the form of a colonnade with stairs leading up to a central sculpted group including the central figure of Jesus holding a chalice. Atop the colonnade, a roundel with the figure of Jesus flanked by angels, palm leaves, clouds, and a cross. The altar features friezes, flaming vase finials, and sculpted moldings with scrolling leaves and festoons. There are figures standing in the doorways flanking the stairs on the ground level and a few figures on the balcony level above. There is a scale below. 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
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-467-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper