Interior Alcove
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1651
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Jean Le Blond, French, ca.1594 – 1666
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior alcove with a half-tester bed in the center framed by an arch and a balustrade. The tester is hung with bed curtains and a feather finial. The headboard is highly ornamented with male herm figures holding the curtains and a double s-scroll frame. The foot of the bed is decorated with scrolling foliage, and fluting. A festoon of flowers is hung across the tester with a central roundel. The room is highly ornate with sculpted paneling and friezes. Niches flank the arched alcove with sculpted figures within. Caryatids in between the windows on both sides of the room.
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: 1921-6-341-11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19.1 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19.3 cm (5 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 12.9 × 19 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)