Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1710
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, French, 1671–1716
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie nationale, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King’s apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King’s Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The title is lettered within an ornamental arch, within a larger ornamental frame. The frame and arch are decorated with arabesque and grotesque motifs, with fleurons, rosettes, masks, strapwork, flowers, shells, garlands, and cornucopias. The inner arch is supported by columns flanked by herms, and cartouches with interlaced L’s. Winged Sphynx support the arch on each side. In the lower center, a base with floral fretwork, shell, fleurons, flowers, and acanthus leaf motifs supports a young boy holding an arrow and a flame, with birds on either side. The plate is signed, numbered, and dated.
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: 1921-6-222-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper