Interior Alcove with a Bed
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 with feather finials. The walls are lined with tapestries. There is a figure lying in the bed and others around the bed. The alcove is framed by fluted pilasters and a balustrade, sculpted figures on plinths, plaques, and friezes. The central opening is topped with a sculpted roundel featuring a putto lying in a bed, framed by a garland of laurel leaves, eagles and festoons of leaves and fruit, and a hanging oval roundel.
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: 1921-6-341-7
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 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.2 × 19.2 cm (5 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13 × 19.1 cm (5 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)