Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed
date: label: Date
content: 1777-79
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an interior wall featuring ornately painted panels, with a canopy bed (Polish bed or lit à la polonaise) set into a niche in the center, with a large painted panel or tapestry on the niche wall. The wall panels are decorated with flowers, ribbons, scrolling leaves, fleurons, festoons of leaves and flowers, flaming torches, bows, arrows, and hearts. There are single doors flanking the niche with overdoor oval paintings or panels in marquetry of flowers framed by pearls, fleurons, ribbons, and festoons of flowers. The bed linen is decorated with tassels and festoons of flowers. The canopy is topped with feathers, and the niche is framed by curtains with flowers. The large panel in the niche features a bird with a lyre, and flowers. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-392-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.9 × 49.6 cm (12 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.3 × 46.2 cm (10 3/4 × 18 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.9 × 45.8 cm (10 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)