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English: Drawing, Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling), 1761   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre
Title
English: Drawing, Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling), 1761
Description
English: Image of an oval ceiling, without the room setting. At the center, a view at the sky passing an oval entablature. In the sky are Apollo, the Muses and genii. The entablature is supported by arches through which parts of further structures are shown. In four of the arches stand pedestals with griffins crouching beside a clock-like form.
Date 1761
date QS:P571,+1761-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and black ink, brush and gray and black wash on two sheets of off-white heavy laid paper joined together horizonatally, lined
Dimensions 41.3 x 61.6 cm (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1931-70-37
Credit line Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt from the collection of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt
Inscriptions watermark: visible is one similar to Churchill 433 left.
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Verso: in pen and brown ink, several lines of handwritten text in an 18th century hand: Vue...&... / pour le developpement / du plafond du / projet de M. Pierre / le 7 Aout [?] 1761 / Canu [?]
  • Period: Neoclassical
  • Country: France
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