Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: 1686–1716
name: label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fifth plate from a series of designs of portes-cochères (doors), newly made for various French royal houses. Highly ornamented arched double doors with different decoration on each door. The arched upper panels are the same, framed by a repeating pattern and a corbel in the center decorated with fleurons and palmette motifs. Below a double frieze with a wave pattern and a lamb’s tongue pattern below. Below, two central small rectangular panels framed by repeating patterns. The right side topped with a gadrooning running pattern and a central shell with s-scroll motifs. The left side, similar panel but topped with a central female head mask, s-scrolls, and fleurons motifs. The lower half on each door is the same with a vertical panel above a small horizontal panel, framed with repeating pattern moldings. The lower section of the doors features a wooden trellis pattern. The plate is signed and numbered, with a scale below.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-353-5
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