View of a Masquerade Ball
date: label: Date
content: 1770–80
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A crowd in fancy dress in a hall, showing a buffet in the center of a peristyle in the rear; the musicians are disposed in balconies left and right; onlookers in galleries above.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1911-28-38
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.8 × 40.1 cm (12 1/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)