Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Workshop of
content: Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The depicted part of the ceiling shows nine coffers of various shapes (rectangular at each corner, two oval, two octagonal, and one round at the center). Each coffer includes an image of a reclining female nude on a cloud. There is a decorative border between the coffers.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1911-28-102
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown and black ink, brush and rose, gray, blue and brown washes, graphite onwhite laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 13.6 x 42 cm (5 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.)