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Acanthus Leaf Design
Alexis Peyrotte1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view of large, swirling acanthus leaf design consisting of raffle leaves and a repetitive design of small ovals at the center of the arrangement.
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Details
- Title: Acanthus Leaf Design
- Creator: Alexis Peyrotte
- Creator Lifespan: 1699/1769
- Date Created: 1740
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching on white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper mounted on cream laid paper
- Markings: Verso: isolated red chalk markings (see object)
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: B; upper right: 6; lower left: Peirotte in; lower right: huquier Sculn et ex A Paris rue des Mathurins C.P.R.; written in graphite on mount, lower right: n° 12
- Dimensions: 30.7 x 48 cm (12 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
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