Interior Alcove with a Bed
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1651
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
label: Publisher
content: Jean Le Blond, French, ca.1594 – 1666
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior alcove with a central bed upholstered with textiles, passementeries, and feather finials. The alcove is framed by columns, caryatids, and a balustrade. The central arch features a blank cartouche held up by flying putti and decorated with festoons of leaves and fruit. The sides feature roundels with sculpted busts. The cornice is decorated with repeating patterns of fluting and waves. The alcove walls are decorated with tapestries, with windows to the left and a door to the right. There is a figure lying in the bed with two women standing to the left of the bed. A group of figures in the far left, leaning against the balustrade.
place: 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: 1921-6-341-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 19.1 × 26.3 cm (7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 13.3 × 19 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.1 × 18.9 cm (5 3/16 × 7 7/16 in.)