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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: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a Neoclassical altarpiece featuring a sculpted female figure, possibly a saint or the Virgin Mary, on a plinth in an arched niche. The arch is ornamented with a shell motif and framed by a ribbon and laurel leaf garland. The niche is framed by columns and topped with a cross, festoons of flowers and two flaming vases. The sides of the altarpiece are ornamented with blank panels and below a frieze of a repeat wave pattern and gadrooning. A scale below the design. The plate is signed, numbered, and titled.
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: 1921-6-293-9
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