Design for a wall of a ballroom
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four and half bays of the elevation of a wall of seven bays are shown. Steps are to lead downwards into the hall in the three central bays. Chandeliers with burning candles hang in each bay. The upper parts of the backs of the two lateral bays are undefined, but dados are at the bottom. Rich decoration in a kind of early rococo. The wall panels are to show alternatively statues standing on pedestals and flanked by candle brackets and trophies of attributes of Cupid under canopies in the upper parts, and console tables with candle brackets before mirrors. Under the top centers of the mirrors are medallions with a fleur-de-lys each. On top alternate escutcheons with monograms of Marie Antoinette and Louis with painted love scenes and putti on top of the mirrors. Paper margins.
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-77
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.6 × 58.3 cm (12 7/16 × 22 15/16 in.)