Lit à la Duchesse
date: label: Date
content: 1779-90
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a bed (side view) with a flat-roofed canopy (baldachin) projecting from the wall at the headboard. The bed curtains are tied back and trimmed with passementeries. There are feathers and acorn finials on the roof of the canopy. The bed linen is decorated with flowers. The bed posts have acorn finials and are decorated with diagonal fluting and rosettes. The bed skirt is striped and tied with tassels. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-395-66
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper