Porte Cochere avec Atigue, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1768
name: label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Designer
content: Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a set of exterior double doors decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. The arched doors feature central vertical curvilinear panels (boiseries) divided into two parts with molding decorated with flowers, sprigs, rosettes, gadrooning, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, shells, and rosettes. The door paneling includes central rosettes framed by flowers and leaves. The lower panels of the doors are decorated with geometric marquetry designs. There is a plan view of the doors below along with a scale. The plate is titled. Other copies of this plate with varying background shading are bound in this album – 1921-6-359-6 and 1921-359-7.
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: 1921-6-359-3
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