Medallion or Frame Design
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for an oval medallion or frame featuring fleurons in the frame, cartouche clasp, foliate branches, flowers, ribbons, draped textile, and birds. The plate is numbered and signed with the artist’s monogram.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1771
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-526-11
- Designer
- Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Etching on laid paper
- made in
- France
- published in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1921-6-526-11
