Two Frieze Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1782
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
label: Print Maker
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A sheet with two designs for friezes from the third book of designs by J.B. Huet. The friezes feature acanthus leaf scrolls, putti, flowers, sprigs, leaves, and branches, birds, cornucopia, masks, fruit, sphynx, and a female faun. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-321-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon-manner in red ink on laid paper