Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a quarter of ceiling. At lower right, a cartouche with a scene of three putti figures in a clearing, one pulling a book from a box; dragons flank the design at left and right. At lower left and upper right, similar designs of vases filled with flowers. At upper left, the ceiling medallion.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777
- Print Maker
- François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777
- Publisher
- Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
- François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
- Date
- 1731–68
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
