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Two Upright Panels, Livre de Paneaux irréguliers (Book of Irregular Panels)

Carl Albert von Lespilliez, François de Cuvilliés1738

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Two designs for upright panels in Rococo style. Left panel: At bottom, a satyr figure with a musket shooting a pig (swine) in a small landscape scene. Above, at center, ornamental scrollwork with two entwined snakes surrounding a staff topped by a winged helmet. Above, at top, a trio of putti figures, one of which raises a basket of flowers above his head. Right panel: Ornamental scrollwork throughout with two figures at bottom, one of which is a putto holding a banner, the other a female nude with her arm outstretched. At top, various flying putti and a caryatid.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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