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: Funeral decorations for King Louis XVI of France. The elevations of a pyrmaid with a rectangular sockle, standing upon a base. In the middle of the base are four steps, at its corners stand candelabra consisting of four superimposed bag calyces and supported by sitting griffins, with a flame. The sockle has below a moulding, which forms the door frame. Trophies of weapons fill the remainder of the sockle. The door frame is decorated above with a festoon. Above the entablature are a moulding with an inscription and a triangle with a trophy as a pediment. In the upper part of the pyramid is an oval bust portrait, framed by the slope of a festoon. Colored background. Below is a scale, pen, ink.
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: 1938-88-1288
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, graphite, red ink on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 40.1 x 29.6 cm (15 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.)