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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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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Print, Design for Upper Part of a Trumeau with a Mirror and a Console Table

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on off-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, Table with Sphinx Base
  • pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-1409

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 35.6 x 23.1 cm (14 x 9 1/8 in.) Sheet: 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 Cuvillies; Lettered lower right, in plate: gravé par C.A.de Lespilliez

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: Dessin d'un Trumeau de Glaces, avec son Couronnement; ét au dessous, une grand Table de marbre.; Printed upper right, in plate: L; Printed center, in plate: Ce dessein ne fait voir que le haut, ét le bas de la Glace; on luij donneroit une hauteur proportionnée a sa largeur.; Printed lower left, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qu'on / pouroit faire plus large.; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower right, in plate: On peut suposer une suite de trumeaux de Glaces, / pareils a celuij marqué A. les pilasters B. dont on ne/voit que la moitié, seroient repetez entre Chacuns/des dts. Trumeaux.; Printed lower right, in plate: 4. Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 61.

Cite this object as

Print, Design for Upper Part of a Trumeau with a Mirror and a Console Table; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez (1723–1796); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 35.6 x 23.1 cm (14 x 9 1/8 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-62

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