Doorway Design
date: label: Date
content: 1647
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an exterior doorway and façade in the style of a Classical temple. The doors are left blank with an arched overdoor, with two blank frames, and a central mask. The façade decorated with smooth-faced rusticated with a fluted keystone. There are two niches above and below, on either side of the doorframe. The lower niches contain sculpted seated women with illegible inscriptions below. The upper niches contain lidded vases on socles. The molded architrave features capitals, festoons of leaves, and animal skulls with ribbons. Above there are molded running patterns of leaves, and the tympanum is decorated with a blank roundel with arms and armor and framed by a festoon of leaves. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-446-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper