Monument of King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The architectural setting is a niche with a rectangular plan, and with an arch above an entablature. The framing parts of the columns are drawn. The pavement of the niche is in the height of the upper edges of the bases of the columns. Upon it stand upon separate bases the sarcophagus and two crowned women (Jusice or Royalty), the left one with what seems to be the sword, and support a cloth hanging in front of the sarcophagus. Above is a pedestal, upon which a winged female (Victory) putto sits at left, and a putto kneels at right, supporting together the oval medallion with the bust portrait. On top is a variation of the motif in 1938-88-1345, with a wreath instead of the crown.
place: label: made 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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1350
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.2 x 20.3 cm (10 11/16 x 8 in.)