Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Symmetrical view of interior decoration with four mirrors and central double doors. Each mirror and door decorated with overhanging. Left: two putti in rocaille frame, one playing lute; second from left: group of ladies sitting in a trompe l'oeil balcony as though at the theater; central overhanging: two classical female figures flank empty crowned cartouche; right of center: three formally-dressed ladies in trompe l'oeil balcony; far right: two putti, one with bow and arrow with boar. Each mirror is heavily decorated with shells, leaves and two or four candles.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750
- Engraver
- Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
- Publisher
- Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
- Date
- 1748
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.2 x 50.9 cm (9 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Type
