This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions), and as such we offer a high-resolution image of it. See our image rights statement.
See more objects with the color silver rosybrown dimgrey darkolivegreen or see all the colors for this object.
Object Timeline
|
1920 |
|
|
2007 |
|
|
2025 |
|
Print, Chiminée decorée de glaces (Fireplace Decorated with Mirrors), in Livre de décoration de lambris (Book of Panelling Decoration)
This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and engraved by Charles-Albert Lespilliez. It is dated 1695–1768 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving and etching on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Drawing, Preliminary Design for the Salon d'Angle at the Palais Royal, Paris,...
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on white laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-80
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 42.5 x 29 cm (16 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.) Platemark: 35.8 x 23.2 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in plate, upper margin: C. P. S. C. M. / Cheminée decorée de glaces, d'un petit tableau audessous et de deux trumeaux A. et B. aussi de glaces variés différemment; left margin: T; lower margin: [scale] Pieds. / Plan de la tablette de / la Cheminée.; lower right margin: 4
Cite this object as
Print, Chiminée decorée de glaces (Fireplace Decorated with Mirrors), in Livre de décoration de lambris (Book of Panelling Decoration); Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Engraved by Carl Albert von Lespilliez (German, 1723 - 1796); Germany; engraving and etching on white laid paper; Sheet: 42.5 x 29 cm (16 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.) Platemark: 35.8 x 23.2 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-283-108
