A Tomb Monument
date: label: Date
content: 1692–99
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle.
label: Description
content: Recto: A tomb monument within a niche consisting of a male bust on a high base flanked by putti holding draperies. below, a sarcophagus flanked by eagles with a garland suspended between them, possibly inspired by the tomb of Cardinal Priuli in S. Marco, Rome.
label: Description
content: Verso: Joseph leads Mary, holding the Christ Child, followed by the ass and two putti. A vertical line divides the scene from a standing Madonna and Child.
label: Description
content: One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-102-2
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 216 × 148 cm (7 ft. 1 1/16 in. × 58 1/4 in.)