Two Chandelier Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two chandeliers. The chandelier on the left is in the form of a torn, held up by chains, and with four arms for candles, formed from roses and leaves. The shaft of the torch is fluted and has crossing branches of leaves that extend below the base of the torch. The chandelier on the right has a shallow, gadrooned bowl, out of which acanthus leaves curl and transform into the four arms for candles. A garland of small flowers is draped between the chandelier arms. Both chandeliers have a scale bar of two French feet ("2 Pieds") below. The chandelier on the right has a cross section below it. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-330-46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper