Alcove with a Bed
date: label: Date
content: 1650–52
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Jean Le Blond, French, ca.1594 – 1666
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an alcove with a highly ornate bed in the center. The bedframe is sculpted with scrolling foliage and festoons of fruit and flowers. The feet are in the shape of lion paws. The headboard features a roundel profile portrait. The crown of the canopy resembles a Turkish-style tent with a scale pattern and feather finial. The bed curtains are drawn back and hang over herm figure columns. The back wall features a tapestry and intricately carved cornice. The bed is on a stepped platform and the alcove is set within a porch, with no side walls, open onto to the landscape or this is an illusion with landscape tapestries on each internal wall.
place: 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: 1921-6-341-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19.1 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19.4 cm (5 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 12.9 × 19 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)