Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1716-19
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament design featuring grotesque motifs with a nude female figure (Venus) seated in a chariot with a dragon on her lap and a putto holding a parasol above her head. Putti leading the chariot and seated on lions, and holding flags, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux) with a vase of flowers, with a flying putto above holding a helmet and quiver of arrows. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-411-32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper