Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque ornament design featuring neoclassical motifs. A central oval with a female figure with winged putti above pouring water into a cup she holds over her head. Two birds on either side. The scene is framed by draped textiles, a garland of vine leaves and grapes, leaves, grasses, baskets of fruit, and putto. The platform the figures stand on is held by a male torso with his lower half in the form of scrolling acanthus leaves, with birds, rosettes, beads, flowers, and a vase below with two mythological figures on either side with more scrolling foliage. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1921-6-335-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper