Lit à la Duchesse
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Simon Chéreau, French, 176.–1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a bed, split down the middle of the plate to show the bed frame construction (left) and the bed furnished (right). The bed is covered in a textile with arabesques, and the frame is carved with ornament motifs including fluting, rosettes, and pinecones. The bed has above it a canopy with striped drapery and tassels, as well as an ostrich feather and a wreath. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-331-102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper