Dessus de Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.
date: label: Date
content: 1710
name: label: Designer
content: François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676
label: Print Maker
content: François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Twenty-fifth plate from a series of prints depicting the ornament and interiors of the King’s apartment at the Royal palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, part of the Cabinet du Roi (King’s Cabinet) series published by the Imprimerie Royale. The plate illustrates two overdoors from the Grand Apartment of the Tuileries Palace. Both overdoors are decorated with friezes, arched pediments with military trophies above. Ornamented with heraldic devices, globes with fleurs-de-lys, grotesque motifs, foliage, shells, ribbons, cornucopias, acanthus leaves, running patterns of laurel and palm leaves and other foliage. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
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: 1921-6-222-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper