Allegory of Painting and Ornament
date: label: Date
content: 1707–44
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704
label: Print Maker
content: Marie-Jeanne Renard Du Bos, French, active early 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Gaspard Duchange, French, 1662 – 1757
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An allegorical print depicting the genius of painting. A winged male figure sits painting ornament on a panel in the foreground with a standing female figure behind him holding a palette and paint brushes. Several putti surround them, including a flying putto holding a basket of flowers above his head. A Triumphal arch behind them with the figure of Apollo and his muses and a Pegasus in the background, visible through the arch. A descriptive text is lettered above the arch within a central cartouche, framed by putto, C-scolls, flowers and a central mascaron within drapery. Trees on either side of the arch.
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: 1921-6-236-35
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper