Three Frieze Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1655–82
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A large frieze above a smaller frieze design and molding design with scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate branches, cornucopia of fruit, and an eagle holding a snake from a Gorgon’s head mascaron (mask). The publisher’s address is lettered below.
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: 1921-6-341-97
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19 × 26.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.2 × 20.8 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.6 × 20.2 cm (5 3/8 × 7 15/16 in.)