Chimney Piece Design
date: label: Date
content: 1647-55
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Print Maker
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a chimney piece (fireplace, mantel and overmantel) with classical motifs. The mantel is framed by sculpted moldings, fruit and leaves, caryatids, festoons of leaves, a rectangular frieze above with a classical scene with figures. The overmantel features a standing statue of a man in armor within a rectangular niche, framed by fluted pilasters supporting a triangular pediment decorated with an eagle, festoons of leaves, flying putto, and a roundel with a cypher. The temple façade overmantel is flanked by standing female statues holding and surrounded by the attributes of geometry and architecture, holding a plan for a fortification and measuring devices. A scale below. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-446-62
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper