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PLAFOND DE PEINTURE; Plafond du même cabinet, 4th Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Engraving (square) for the ceiling of Count Bielinski's cabinet. Large central roundel shows a sunburst as background for a mythological scene. A chariot, drawn by two horses and driven by a man is surrounded by female figures, putti, garlands and fruits. Cartouches at the four corners are decorated with putti. On lower border of engraving is written, to left and right of center: PLAFOND DE PEINTURE/Pour le Cabinet de Mr. le Comte de Bielinski grand M.al de la Couronne de Pologne
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- Title: PLAFOND DE PEINTURE; Plafond du même cabinet, 4th Plate
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: 1740
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Engraving on white laid paper
- Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux (Decloux 173)
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate: upper left: P; upper right: 90; lower left, J.A. Meissonnier Pinxit; lower center, A Paris chés Huquier rue St. Jacques près celle des Mathurins. CPR; lower right, P. Aveline Sculp.
- Dimensions: Platemark: 40.8 x 35.8 cm (16 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
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