Portal Design,"la Prusse et la Religion," design for plate 40 in the "Nouvelle iconologie historique..."
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A doorway flanked by two draped grotesque figures. Before the doorway is a framed artwork depicting a cross and wolf pierced by a flag pole. Above door is a scene of cupids feeding each other grapes.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
- Date
- ca. 1765
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Mat: 45.9 x 35.7 cm (18 1/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
- (irregular): 37.1 x 22.6 cm (14 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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