Design for a Painted Ceiling and the Decoration of a Short Wall Illustrating the Seasons
date: label: Date
content: 1630–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Partial view of wall decoration. In the middle is intended a painted view in a garden atrium. The opening is bordered above by an overdoor with two alternative suggestions united to one whole. At left: an escutcheon, with a rectangular frame for a picture, is carried by putti; at right: a scrollwork frame with a portrait of a victorious general is carried by a putto holding in his outside arm a shield with a crowned double-headed eagle. Above, in the center, is a part of a putto leaning his hand upon a frame, which is intended to have a counterpart "Autumn," "Summer," "Winter," sit upon clouds above the wall decoration. "Saturnus" flies toward "Summer" from the ovoidal scrollwork frame in the middle of the ceiling. A child with a basket kneels in the corner at right. At center, the ovoidal frame is supported laterally by pilasters of a kind, showing in the middle niches with female statues. Winged armless mermaids are shown laterally. Beside the pilaster at right sit women with wreathes and more children with vessels filled with flowers. The short wall opposite the shown one is faced by Cybele in her chariot drawn by lions and receiving fruits offered by a girl. A woman with a vine is at her other side. A woman carrying birds on a stick is beside the pilaster on the other long side. At right of it a child extending his arm toward a fruit basket carried by another child, sits upon the mermaid.
place: label: made in
content: Spain and Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1601
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black and red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 71 x 43 cm (27 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)