Five Alternative Designs for Altars
date: label: Date
content: 1690
name: label: Designer
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Print Maker
content: Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Gastelier, French, 16..–1698
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Five designs for ecclesiastical altars featuring paintings and sculptures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Saints, and angels. The altarpieces are framed by decorative paneling (boiseries), pilasters, sculpted moldings, with scrolling leaves, fluting, festoons of leaves, flowers, trophies, mascarons (masks), palm leaves, roundels, and friezes. Each design includes a scale below. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-467-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper