LES ORDRES CORINTHIEN ET IONIQUE
date: label: Date
content: 1768–75
name: label: Designer
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a portico and building façade featuring Neoclassical motifs associated with the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece and Rome. The stairs lead up to a doorway framed by columns. Above the doorway, a frieze with a hanging swag, and a blank oval roundel with festoons of leaves. Above an arch with a sculpture of a cross and two vase finials. The portico is framed by fluted corinthian pilasters supporting an entablature and a pediment. The building has a domed roof, and a balcony level with a meander pattern frieze along the balustrade. The plate is signed, titled, and numbered.
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: 1921-6-485-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 28.5 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 17.6 × 14.8 cm (6 15/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 16.8 × 14.1 cm (6 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)