Diane
date: label: Date
content: 1729–37
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque design for tapestries (door curtains) featuring the standing Classical Greek and Roman goddess Diana in the center, framed by a canopy, two female herms on either side on plinths, with objects associated with hunting, a net, horns, spears, trees, and foliage. A cartouche below with a hunting scene, birds, dogs, a squirrel, and porcupine on plinths, and rococo ornament, featuring rosettes, fleurons, rinceaux, festoons of flowers, and baskets of flowers. This is a first state of the second plate of the series before lettering.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-420-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper