Model d’un Lit executé pour Monseigneur le Dauphin
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1783
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
label: Print Maker
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Antoine Demarteau, Flemish, 1750 – 1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a bed for the Dauphin of France, born in 1781 from the twelfth book of designs by J.B. Huet. The bed is upholstered with a canopy topped with a feathered helmet and shield, flanked by putti, and decorated with garlands of flowers and branches with leaves. The drapery is finished with passementerie. The back of the bed is decorated with woven textiles with neoclassical arabesque designs of flowers, fleurons, leaves, a vase, and birds. Two round cushions with tassels on either end of the bed, the drapery hanging from the canopy is pulled to the sides around two spear finials, with two winged putti standing below on the base of the bed. The drapery on the front of the bed is draped with garlands of flowers and tied with ribbons and tassels hanging from the ribbons and trimmed with passementerie.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-321-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon-manner in red ink on laid paper