Design for an Ornament Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1733–34
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a rocaille cartouche frame is a sunburst surrounding a putto on the back of an eagle, wings outspread. The eagle rests on a cloud and holds a bolt of lightning with its right foot. Verso: fragment of geometrical accounting (in pencil) in "p(ied)s" and "po(uces)."
place: label: designed 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: 1911-28-215
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 brown and black ink, black chalk, brush and yellow, pale green, gray, and brown washes on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10 × 17.8 cm (3 15/16 in. × 7 in.)