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: Sixth plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented arched double doors with a different choice of decoration on each door. The lunette or tympanum features a central roundel with the French royal coat of arms framed by curved triangular panels with patterned border moldings. The left panel features a feathered helmet. Below a lintel with a running pattern of fleurons, fleurs-de-lys, scrolling acanthus leaves and strapwork. Below a central corbel and central masks on either side, with festoons of flowers. Each door features three panels and an upper frieze. The right side is decorated with a frieze of rosettes with blank panels below framed by patterned border moldings featuring fleurs-de-lys, lamb’s tongue, and foliate motifs. The left side features the same framed panels but with sculpted motifs in the center of each panel. Above, a crown with palm leaves, in the center a winged putto blowing a horn while sitting on arms and armor, and below a trophy of arms and armor. The frieze above the left door features fluting, lamb’s tongue, and acanthus leaves. The exterior walls surrounding the door are finished with horizontal banded rustication. The plate is signed and numbered, with a scale below.
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: 1921-6-353-6
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