Wall with Painting and Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German, 1723 - 1796
label: Publisher
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior wall decoration with applied ornamental stuccowork. At right, a chimneypiece with a large painting above depicting a landscape and architectural ruins. A similar, smaller painting at right, both contained within highly decorative frames. At upper right, a small escutcheon with the face of a figure surrounded by banners, a putto and nude figure below. Scale at lower right.
place: label: made in
content: Munich, Germany
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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: 1921-6-282-39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 34.5 × 24.2 cm (13 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)