Design for a Painted Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Michel, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Candelabrum scheme includes a girl standing under a canopy on a sphere holds the ends of the ribbons wound around trees forming part of the lateral framing. Crouching sphinxes flank the girl. Doves, putti medallion, three-quarter figures of the satyress and a mermaid, a pilaster and a vase, as alternative motifs. A female mask is included in the design of the upper part of the composition.
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: 1911-28-307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and black and light blue watercolor washes on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 52.2 × 26.9 cm (20 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.)