Textile
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Claude-Louis Desrais, (French, 1746–1816)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Panel of cotton, plate-printed in red. Design shows Apollo, the Sun God, and the Muses. Below, Apollo playing the Lyre.
label: Description
content: Apollo descending from the sun chariot is represented as the god of music holding a lyre and presiding over nymphs. Apollo at his bath recalls statues by Girardon and Reynaudin in the park at Versailles dating from th e1680's.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-51-4
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Material: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave; mordant for red
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 103 x 98 cm (40 9/16 x 38 9/16 in.)