Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top left, a mask of a human figure with horns from which are suspended tassels. Under it, a nude female figure seen frontally, seated on a sheet held in both hands, arms extended. Upper right, a motif showing a nude trumpeter standing on a rinceau, and beside him a putto astride a unicorn, and below, another putto carrying a banner. Center left, a winged herm supporting a shelf. Center, a winged terminal figure seen frontally. Lower left, two vases, one in the form of a pitcher whose handle terminates in a human figure who pours liquid into the vase over his shoulder. Lower right, two winged genii flank a medallion showing a putto seated by an urn, and below, two putti embrace over paired volutes flanking a medallion but portrait.
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: 1911-28-199
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31 × 19 cm (12 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)