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Design for a Triumpal Arch for Napoleon I, Bergamo, Italy
1800–12
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Architectural design for a triumphal arch. Within the archway stands a group of two adult figures and a boy with a dog. Alternatively suggested on the arch are a coat-of-arms upon an eagle at left and a tablet for an inscription at right. Pediment above. At right, some bushes and indication of landscape. Below, the scale.
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Details
- Title: Design for a Triumpal Arch for Napoleon I, Bergamo, Italy
- Date Created: 1800–12
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/64291
- Medium: Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
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