Ceiling Design
date: label: Date
content: 1700–15
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715
label: Publisher
content: Gaspard Duchange, French, 1662 – 1757
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate from a series of seven ceiling designs, showing half of an ornately decorated ceiling cornice with a cartouche and roundels with scenes and portraits, masks, friezes, putti, arabesque and grotesque motifs, shells, c-and s-scrolls, fretwork, garlands, and fleurons. The oval ceiling is blank. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-315-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper