Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two rocaille designs for upright wall panels. Left panel: within cartouche at upper center, a scene of putti figures sleeping beneath a tent in a lawn. In right background, partial view of a castle. Portrait busts flank design at lower center. Right panel, within cartouche at upper center, a scene of putti upon a cloud, one of whom holds a staff with a cross on it. Dragons flank ornamental design at bottom.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Print Maker
- Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German, 1723 - 1796
- Publisher
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Date
- 1738 and 1745
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
