Design of Two Border Details

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1748

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Upper border with center escutcheon decorated with the royal crown and leaves. Lower border with center shell-shaped cartouche and crowned animal head (horse?).

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Title: Design of Two Border Details
Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
Date Created: 1748
Type: Print
Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium: Etching on off-white laid paper
Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux (Decloux 173)
Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: F; upper right: 40; lower left: J.A. Meissonnier inv.; lower right, Huquier Sculp et ex. C.P.R.; lower center: Development de hordures pour une chasse du Roy
Dimensions: 15.6 x 21.5 cm (6 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier Etching