Two Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top, upper portion of an arabesque panel, consisting of a figure dirving a chariot drawn by four horses on a pedestal rising between two reclining figures. Below, on a panel between sphinxes, a pair of arabesques terminating in half-horse half-human figures. Below, two basiliks standing face to face flanking an urn decorated with a human face.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1911-28-197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with ink wash, graphite on pieces of paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26 × 15.9 cm (10 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)