Ornament Panel Design
date: label: Date
content: ca.1660–1713
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713
label: Print Maker
content: Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament panel design with a central cartouche with two figures in a landscape, a woman (Daphne) turning into a laurel tree and a man (the god Apollo) chasing her; a story from Greek and Roman mythology. The scene is framed by foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, griffins morphing into scrolling leaves, putti morphing into scrolling leaves, a cushion, and fish scale pattern. 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: 1921-6-333-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper