Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The depicted part of the ceiling shows nine coffers of various shapes (rectangular at each corner, two oval, two octagonal, and one round at the center). Each coffer includes an image of a reclining female nude on a cloud. There is a decorative border between the coffers.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-102
- Workshop of
- Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown and black ink, brush and rose, gray, blue and brown washes, graphite onwhite laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 13.6 x 42 cm (5 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-102
