Coupe du grand Escalier de l’Hôtel de Toulouse à Paris prise sur sa largeur et qui laisse voir l’entrée du Vestibule au rez de chaussée, et la Porte d’entrée du grand Appartement au premier étage
date: label: Date
content: 1713–42
name: label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
label: Architect
content: Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An architectural section depicting the grand staircase from the Hôtel de Toulouse in Paris, with a view of the entrance to the vestibule on the ground floor and the door to the grand apartment on the first floor. Two large arches on the ground floor topped with cartouches and flowers with six columns and a few stairs. The first floor includes a set of two-leaf doors topped with an arched tympanum with the Royal arms of France, flanked by pilasters and paneling featuring carved trophies of arms and armor. With a wrought-iron balustrade in the foreground and stairs. There is a scale below and the plate is titled.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-356-1
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