Plan et Elevation de la Porte des Theatins
date: label: Date
content: 1760–90
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
label: Architect
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a set of exterior double doors decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. The arched doors are each divided into five molded panel sections (boiseries). The central vertical panels are arched and feature a central cartouche framed by shell, fleurons, c-scrolls and festoons of flowers and leaves. With upper and lower clasps in the form of shells. The lower clasps include animal masks (mascarons) with a door knocker in the mouth of the right mask. Two narrow horizontal panels above are decorated with stars, textiles, crowns of thorns, leaves, and fleurs-de-lys. The upper arched panels feature incense burners, leaves, gadrooning, c-scrolls, and scrolling leaves. The lower panels of the doors are decorated with star marquetry designs. There is a plan view of the doors and a scale below. The plate is titled, and the signatures have been taken out at lower right and left corners. Another copy of this plate with slight variations and differing titling is bound in this album 1921-359-8.
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: 1921-6-359-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper