Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Folding door in arched door frame, in the center. Attributes of the Arts and Hymen. Laterally are wall panels between pilasters. Different suggestions for their decoration are made at left and at right. The suggestion at left indicates putti, a genius and a girl supporting vessels. At right: trophies of attributes of the arts and a candelabrum scheme with a censer. Laterally, section of the entablature.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
- Date
- 1770–80
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and grey wash with red crayon on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 14 x 22.9 cm (5 1/2 x 9 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
