Pompe funèbre d’Elisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine Reine de Sardaigne, en l’église de Notre Dame de Paris le XXIIE. SEPTEMBRE M.DCC.XXXXI.
date: label: Date
content: 1756
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Director of Production
content: Michel de Bonneval, French, 17..-1766
label: Office of
content: Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France
label: Sculptor
content: Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz, French, 1695–1754
label: Sculptor
content: Paul-Ambroise Slodtz, French, 1702–1758
label: Publisher
content: Imprimerie de Ballard, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Interior view inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France during the funeral ceremony for the Queen of Sardinia. Highly decorated interior space with high ceilings and long drapery. Skulls throughout decorative scheme; the figure of Death in the form of a skeleton with long bat-like wings carrying a scythe and wearing a laurel leaf crown flies among a cloud of drapery near the top of the ceiling. At center, the queen's body raised up on a monument and covered by a shroud, underneath a large covered structure. Before her, a sculptural group featuring a male figure reclining upon a rock, two female figures reach for him at his left, two children at lower right, a fallen crown at their feet. Robed figures at either side form the bases of large candelabra and torches that illuminate the space, the many candles attached to linked wreaths. At their sides stand figures of men armed with swords and rifles, viewed from the back. At front, a row of monks sit facing towards the body. At either side, rows of figures sit for the funeral ceremony.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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: 1921-6-205-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 91.4 × 61.1 cm (36 × 24 1/16 in.)