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date: label: Date
content: 1737
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Publisher
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print after an overdoor painting of an allegory of sculpture. A woman sits sculpting a male figure, within an arch. A winged putto is up a ladder to the left, holding back a curtain, with another sitting, measuring a sculpted bust with a caliper, a third putto sits within the arch to the right. The arch is decorated with a rosette, and garlands of flowers. The sky is visible in the background. The title is lettered below, and the plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-211-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching and engraving on paper