Design for a Library Wall
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740
name: label: Circle of
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two sections of bookcases are divided and flanked by carved panels of boiserie; at the left, a door and a wide and narrow panel, the wider one flanked by sconces and decorated with carved festoons and a mirror; at the right, desk containing a clock and above, a carved picture or mirror frame; over the bookcases--statuary, vases, and a map-globe. On verso, graphite sketch of a console table with indications of scale.
place: label: designed 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: 1911-28-246
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black and red ink, brush and gray and rose wash on two joined sheets of white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 17.5 x 45.1 cm (6 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)