Nouveau dessein d’une chambre a coucher dont le lit est en niche avec portes de degagemens pour les garderobbes
date: label: Date
content: 1686–1740
name: label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an interior bedroom wall elevation featuring a bed in a niche with doors on either side. Sectional views of the carving of the doors, niche, and cornice on either side of the central elevation. The wall features rococo ornament on the paneling and bed. The bed is in the center, in a niche with curtains tied back. The curved headboard features a diaper pattern with a central rosette and rinceaux ornament. The narrow panels between the doors and niche and cornice are decorated with rosettes, fleurons, strapwork, c-scrolls, and rinceaux ornament, with a plain dado level below. The single doors on either side of the bed niche are topped with oval overdoor paintings featuring mythological figures, with Leda and the Swan to the left, and Danaë receiving Jupiter in a shower of gold, to the right. The overdoor paintings are framed by festoons of flowers. There is a scale below the design. The plate is titled and numbered.
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: 1921-6-353-20
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