Plan et Elévation d'un Salon du côté de la Cheminée
date: label: Date
content: 1774
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Divided plan and elevation of a living room with a fireplace at center. The fireplace features ornament motifs including fluting, rosettes, and acanthus leaves. Above the mantle is a mirror with a bound reed frame with elements of garland and egg and dart above. On either side of the fireplace is a door. The left door frame features ornament motifs including rosettes and an overdoor relief with trophy of attributes of war (shield, flags, helmet, quiver). The right door features ornament motifs including guilloche of branches, rosettes in rondels, wave pattern, and an overdoor relief with cornucopia and a rondel with a scene from antiquity. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-256-45
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper