Plan et Elévation Géometral d’une Porte Cochere
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783
label: Print Maker
content: Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a set of exterior double doors decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. The doors feature central vertical curvilinear panels (boiseries) decorated with a lower clasp in the shape of a shell with foliate motifs, fleurons, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The lower panels of the doors are decorated withe geometric marquetry. The arched tympanum above the doors features shell, rocaille, and foliate motifs, festoons of flowers and glass panels. The whole is framed by smooth-faced rustication. There is a scale and plan view of the door below. The plate is titled and signed. Another copy of this print is bound in this album 1921-6-359-5.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-359-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper