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: Third plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented arched double doors with carved panels, the upper panels are blank framed with repeating patterns. Below, smaller rectangular panels. The right panel features a roundel with the royal cypher (crowned interlaced L’s), topped with a mask and a festoon of flowers. The left panel features a coat of arms, flanked by lions. Below, each door has large vertical panels framed by a repeating pattern. The doors feature s-scrolls, fleurons, and acanthus leaf ornament. The plate is numbered and signed, with a scale below the design.
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: 1921-6-353-3
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