Model de Lit de Repos pour Boudoir ou Alcove
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1782
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
label: Print Maker
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a daybed from the eleventh book designs by Huet. The daybed is set into an alcove, draped in curtains decorated with flowers, tassels and passementerie. The daybed is set with floral textiles, draped along the front, and tied with a ribbon, trimmed with tassels and passementerie. Two winged putti sitting on lions hold the drapery on either side of the daybed. Two cushions with tassels on the daybed. The alcove panel is blank with a floral and ribboned garland along the bottom edge, above the daybed. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-321-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon-manor in red ink on laid paper