Porte Cochere avec Entresol, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1768
name: label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
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 doors feature central vertical curvilinear panels (boiseries) decorated with molded scrolling leaves (rinceaux), flowers and shell ornament. With lower shell clasps with crowns of leaves. The lower panels of the doors have circular and star marquetry designs. The arched tympanum above the doors feature a mezzanine level balcony with wrought-iron balustrade in front of glass paneled doors framed by c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves, and festoons of flowers. The lintel is decorated with a reed and ribbon molding and a fluted molding with fleurons ornament. There are scales on either side of the design and a plan view of the doors below. The plate is titled.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-359-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper