Design for a Garden
date: label: Date
content: 1692–99
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle.
label: Description
content: Recto: A garden doorway, flanked by atlantes and surmounted by a balustrade flanked by urn fountains and supporting an escutcheon held by putti with ducal arms. A figure seen through the door.
label: Description
content: Verso: Two urns one developed into suite XI plate 9, and a section of a circular ceiling cove showing two putti holding a ribbon, possibly Inspired by the vault decorations of S. Carlo ai Catinari, Rome.
label: Description
content: One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
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: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-102-1
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with gray and brown washes on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 215 × 148 cm (7 ft. 5/8 in. × 58 1/4 in.)