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Premiere Partie Diverse Ornemens
Alexis Peyrotteafter 1745
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Large oval design consisting of an arrangement of foliate branches to form a cartouche at top inscribed DIVERS ORNEMENS/Dédiés/a Monsieur TANEVOT architecte du Roi/ par son T.H.S Peyrotte. A butterfly on a branch (upper right), a parrot perched on a scroll (lower right), a group of flower heads (poppies?) and acanthus leaves (bottom). Within the oval, a scene of an island with tall trees, a stone structure (left middle ground), and a marsh (right, foreground).
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- Title: Premiere Partie Diverse Ornemens
- Creator: Alexis Peyrotte
- Creator Lifespan: 1699/1769
- Date Created: after 1745
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching on white laid paper
- Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper mounted on cream laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: A; upper center: Premiere Partie; upper right: 1; lower left; Peyrotte inv.; lower center: A Paris chés Huquier des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne. Avec Priv. du Roy.; lower right: Huquier Sculp.; written in graphite, verso: les 6 feuilles/(unreadable, see object); written in graphite on mount, upper right: n° 1
- Dimensions: 47.8 x 33 cm (18 13/16 x 13 in.)
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