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Design for Illuminated Initial "F"
Gilles-Marie Oppenordtca. 1695
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Figures of river god and four nymphs on a rock at the base of which a bull crouches. The letter F is shown in reverse at the center of figural grouping.
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Details
- Title: Design for Illuminated Initial "F"
- Creator: Gilles-Marie Oppenord
- Creator Lifespan: 1672/1742
- Date Created: ca. 1695
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and white gouache (corrections), green watercolor on paper, framing lines in pen and black ink, squared
- Provenance: Léon Decloux, Sèvres, France, acquired after 1906
- Inscribed: Inscribed in ? upper right corner: 34
- Dimensions: 16.1 x 11 cm (6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
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