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 three figures in the foreground. In the center background, a bed upholstered with textiles, passementeries and feather finials. The walls framing the alcove are ornamented with paneling and two niches with sculptural figures. The panels are decorated with floral and leaf motifs, and leaf friezes the niches and central arch are decorated with festoons of flowers and leaves and curtains drawn back in the center. Above the arch, a cartouche flanked by winged putti.
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: 1921-6-341-5
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 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.1 × 18.8 cm (5 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)