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Design for Decoration of a Bed Alcove

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Slightly more than the left half is shown. Glass "glaze" extends over the back wall. A curtain is suspended from a canopy and held back by a putto and is slung around an apple tree. A pair of billing doves on clouds in the ceiling cove.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
After
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
Date
ca. 1725–50
Credit Line
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium
Pen and red and black inks, graphite on paper
Dimensions
25.9 x 14.7 cm (10 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Type
architecture, interiors
Object Name
drawing
Type
drawing
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