Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling)
date: label: Date
content: 1761
name: label: Artist
content: Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, French, 1714–1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Image of an oval ceiling, without the room setting. At the center, a view at the sky passing an oval entablature. In the sky are Apollo, the Muses and genii. The entablature is supported by arches through which parts of further structures are shown. In four of the arches stand pedestals with griffins crouching beside a clock-like form.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt from the collection of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-70-37
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 ink, brush and gray and black wash on two sheets of off-white heavy laid paper joined together horizonatally, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 41.3 x 61.6 cm (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)