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This and 149 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists.

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Print, Deux différents desseins de Comodes

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez. It is dated 1745–55 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching, engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


Jean-François Cuvilliés’s printed commode designs, particularly the lower example, may have been a model for a commode executed about twenty years later coming from the Schloss Seehof in Germany. Its bombé (swelling) shape, white painted surface, and carved and gilded ornament are characteristic of Cuvilliés-designed commodes.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés; Lettered lower right, in plate: gravé par C.A. de Lespilliez

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: Deux diferents desseins de Comodes.; Printed upper right, in plate: F; Printed lower center, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait / la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; Printed center, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait / la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower right, in plate: 3.; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 34

Cite this object as

Print, Deux différents desseins de Comodes; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez (1723–1796); Germany; etching, engraving on off-white laid paper; 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-35

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

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