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 and a sofa / daybed in a central niche. The panels are decorated with flowers, flaming torches, bows, quivers of arrows, crowns, festoons of flowers, ribbons, flowering sprigs, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), pearls, laurel leaf and ribbon molding and lamb’s tongue ornament. A large mirror set into the niche above the sofa/daybed, which is draped with textiles decorated with flowers, scrolling leaves and tassels. Doors on either side of the niche feature oval roundels with flowers framed by pearls or beads and a tied ribbon at the top, with rosettes in the corners. 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: 1921-6-392-11
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 × 46.1 cm (10 5/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.1 × 45.6 cm (10 1/4 × 17 15/16 in.)