Object Details
- Description
- Sheet depicts a wall with three shallow niches. The middle niche is larger than the side niches. In each niche, a pink sofa is placed under/against a framed green panel with tied-back pink curtain on either side. In front of the pilasters separating the niches, stand statues of pairs of putti holding a candle, elevated on round bases. Above, on the pilasters, portrait medallions are suspended.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Architect
- Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
- Date
- ca. 1785
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 63.2 cm (17 15/16 x 24 7/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
