Designs for Painted Panels with Fortune and Jacques Necker
date: label: Date
content: 1788–90
name: label: Artist
content: Claude-Louis Desrais, (French, 1746–1816)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At top is a radiant sun with interlacing L’s, the symbol of Louis XVI and a woman deflecting beams of light with a magnifying glass. At center, a woman holds a wreath over a portrait bust of Jacques Necker. At the base of the plinth is a book entitled Compte rendu, and a paper scroll on which is written: Eloge de Colbert. At bottom, a grotesque and a crowned shield with fleurs-de-lys.
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: 1911-28-70-2
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and white gouache and sepia washes, black chalk on two pieces of off-white laid paper, joined
label: Dimensions
content: 50.1 × 10.1 cm (19 3/4 in. × 4 in.)