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date: label: Date
content: 1768
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a neo-classical chimneypiece with a scale below. The mantel is decorated with fluting and a festoon of laurel leaves. The andirons in the fireplace are in the shape of obelisks topped with flames. The semi-circular overmantel mirror is framed by a bead course and egg and dart molding, with a festoon of flowers hanging across the upper section. A painted pastoral scene in a panel above the mirror with a male and female figure laying in a landscape. A candelabra on either side of the frame above the mantel. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-338-2
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