Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An interior wall elevation for a gallery with four large arched and paneled glass windows/ doors. The walls feature paneling, frames, moldings, brackets in the cornice, and a sculptural bust of a figure in Chinese-style dress, with a vase, and masks (maskarons), in the center, with a cartouche below on the plinth or dado level. The paneling features a trophy of arms and armor, a shell, and a medallion with a profile portrait. The moldings and cornice feature strapwork, rosettes, fleurons, masks (mascarons), and c-scroll motifs. A description and scale are lettered below. The plate is numbered.
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-346-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 29.7 × 19.5 cm (11 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.5 × 16.7 cm (10 13/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.4 × 15.9 cm (10 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.)