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Design for a Chimney Piece and Adjoining Bays with Alternative Suggestions

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
The left half includes a candle bracket showing a child holding two scrolls topped by sockets; a medallion with the bust of a woman under a canopy; a painting with a woman and two children one of whom is Cupid. The decoration is sparser in the right half. Bottom margin; plans of the mantelpiece.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
After
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
Date
18th century
Credit Line
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions
28.3 x 22.2 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Type
interiors
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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