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"Chariot of Apollo," Ceiling Design for Count Bielinski's Cabinet, Warsaw, Poland
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1734
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The central area is taken up with simulated sky with the chariot of Apollo. Around the edges, allegorical figures seated on clouds; simulated architecture of vaults and pendentives about the outer edges, within an architectural frame.
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- Title: "Chariot of Apollo," Ceiling Design for Count Bielinski's Cabinet, Warsaw, Poland
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: 1734
- Physical Dimensions: w320 x h321 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint over black chalk on white laid paper
- Provenance: Léon Decloux (acquired after 1906)
- Paper Support: White laid paper, with collar
- Inscribed: "PLAFOND DE PEINTURE / Pour le Cabinet de M. le Comte de Bielenski grand Mtr. de La Couronne de Pologne."
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008," March 7 - July 6, 2008.New York, NY - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, "The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource," March 26, 1991 - August 30, 1992 (exhibited in first rotation: March 26 - July 8, 1991).Columbus, OH - Ohio State University, School of Art, "Eighteenth-Century Architectural Drawings," April 22 - May 14, 1965.
- Dimensions: 31.8 x 32.1 cm (12 1/2 x 12 5/8 )
- Bibliography: Peter Fuhring, "Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier and His Patrons," in Sarah Coffin et. al, Rococo, The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 (New York: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2008), p. 29, fig. 5.Roland Michel, Marianne, Le Dessin Francaise au XVIIIe Siecle (Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1987), p. 121, fig. 121.Bottineau, Yves, L'Art Baroque (Paris: Editions Mazenod, 1986), p. 443, fig. 390 (rep.), p. 491.Roland Michel, Marianne, Lajoue et L'Art Rocaille (Neuilly-sur Seine: Arthena, 1984), p. 151.Roland Michel, Marianne, "L'ornement rocailles: quelques questions," Revue de l'Art, 1983, p. 69.
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