Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1749
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745
label: Publisher
content: Étienne Charpentier, French, 1704 – 1793
label: Publisher
content: Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Chéreau, French, 1688–1776
label: Publisher
content: Étienne-Louis Crépy, French, after 1706 – after 1759
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of six ornament prints featuring designs for boiseries (paneling) to be used in the decoration of chimney pieces, overmantels, overdoor paintings, and doors with rococo ornament and motifs. The title is lettered in a cartouche in the lower center, with a balustrade behind, framed by ‘rocaille’ motifs, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), festoons of flowers and two ewers. Behind the balustrade, a design for a bed in a niche framed by carved paneling (boisieries), and a curtain drawn back. The bed features an ornate headboard with putti, birds, and a basket of flowers. The arched niche is topped with winged putti holding crowned heraldic shields or escutcheon, with winged female busts below, on either side. The paneling features rocaille motifs, shells, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fluting and festoons of flowers. The plate is numbered and dated.
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: 1921-6-367-1
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