LIVRE DE PORTIERES
date: label: Date
content: 1729–37
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Print Maker
content: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, French, 1692 – 1765
label: Print Maker
content: Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Edmé-François Gersaint, French, 1694 – 1750
label: Publisher
content: Louis Surugue, French, 1686–1762
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Album containing a series of arabesque designs for tapestries (door curtains) featuring Classical Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. Some of the plates are printed in their earlier states and before lettering, bound with a design for a painted top panel of a harpsichord. The designs feature rococo ornament with arabesque and singerie (monkey) motifs after designs by Claude Gillot.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-420
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44 × 32 cm (17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.)