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Floral and Acanthus Leaf Design
Alexis Peyrotte1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Large ornament design consisting of swirling acanthus leaves, known as raffle leaves, forming C and S scrolls. Amongst the leaves are clusters of flowers with their natural foliage.
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Details
- Title: Floral and 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: Etcher on white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper mounted on cream laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: A; upper right: 4; lower left: Peirotte in; lower right: huquier Sculp et ex a Paris rue des Mathurins C.P.R.; written on plate in graphite, verso: les 6 feuilles/(unreadable, see object); written on mount in graphite, upper right: n° 4
- Dimensions: 47.8 x 32.7 cm (18 13/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
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