Monument of King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below is a rectangular base. Upon it stand at left Prudence, with the mirror, and at right Hope, leaning upon the sarcophagus, whose front has the shape of a vase, with a broken pediment, with a mask in the center. The sarcophagus has above the shape of a pedestal with a cushion above it. Upon it kneels a putto and raises a medallion with a bust portrait, and a laurel branch. At left stands a winged genius blowing a trumpet, helping with his left arm in supporting the medallion. The head is not visible. Below at right is a slightly sketched plan, a square, with two hemicycles at left and at right.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1343
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 x 19.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)