Design for a Sepulchral Monument to King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Artist
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
label: Dedicatee
content: Louis XVI, King of France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of 1938-88-1302. The flames burn in bowls, which are supported, in alternative suggestions, at left by the raised arms of a woman, at riht by a post, which is surroudned in its lower part by standing figures. The panels beside the door are decorated with a festoon. Without a distinctive objects in the interior. The figure on top is a variation of 1938-88-1301, without the angel.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1305
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 x 20.4 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)