Homage to a Hero
date: label: Date
content: 1772
name: label: Artist
content: Firmin Perlin
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A large loggia shown from an oblique angle. A large arch opens up into the outdoors. A fountain and other buildings are visible just beyond the arch. The interior of the loggia includes two large apses with half domes. The walls are lined with fluted columns and pilasters. Inside, at left, is a scene in which a hero in classical attire receives a wreath from Fortune and another gift from Architecture who is flanked by Painting and Sculpture in the apse at left. Attributes of Music, Science, Justice, Commerce, Seafaring, and three putti are shown before the apse. Fortune is accompanied on her clouds by putti; two carry a medallion with the monogram V S, and by Fame. Apollo and the Muses are represented in the courts of the apse.
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: 1911-28-251
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 wash, watercolors, white gouache, graphite on cream paper, lined and framed with paper stripe representing molding
label: Dimensions
content: 35 x 50.9 cm (13 3/4 x 20 1/16 in.)