Titlepage and Cartouche Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1690
name: label: Designer
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Print Maker
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Gastelier, French, 16..–1698
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A title page for a series of cartouche designs, which also depicts four cartouches. The title is lettered in the lower cartouche, while the three upper cartouches are left blank. The cartouches feature military and musical themes. The title cartouche includes musical trophies, palm leaves, and mascarons (masks), topped with the head of Apollo surrounded by rays of light. The central cartouche is topped by the statue of the French king Louis XIV in classical Roman armor standing on a plinth with the royal coat of arms, flanked by two seated figures also in Classical military dress, holding paint brushes to oval roundels depicting military scenes, supported by angels. Below the head of Hercules is surrounded by oak branches with leaves and acorns. The two smaller cartouches above feature a trident, male figures, lion heads, and a mascaron (mask).
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: 1921-6-467-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper