Decoration for portrait of Pope Pius VI and royal couple
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. In front of a curtain stands a support which has below the shape of a column. Obliquely fastened to it are two ovoidal frames in front of a trophy of colors. A putto is shown kneeling upon either frame raising crowns and mace. Above in the interval between the frames is a bearded head with a helmet. It supports another frame having on top two putti with the keys and the tiara. Colored background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-1447
- Architect
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.5 x 17.4 cm (10 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-1447
