Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed
date: label: Date
content: 1779–84
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an interior wall featuring ornately painted panels, doors, and a sofa bed in a niche decorated with ‘’chinoiseries’’ motifs (European decorative arts and architectural style inspired by fanciful ideas of China and East Asia). The panels feature flowering branches, stars, rosettes, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fantastical canopied structures, leaves, and bells. The bedding is decorated with floral and crescent moons. The boards feature trellising and feathers. The canopy above is tent-like with a hanging scalloped textile decorated with a sun and moons, and hanging bells, held by fantastical lizard creatures on either side. The canopy is topped with feathers. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-392-22
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 × 49.6 cm (12 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 26.8 × 46.5 cm (10 9/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.3 × 46.2 cm (10 3/8 × 18 3/16 in.)