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Deux différents desseins de Comodes
François de Cuvilliés1745–55
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two drawings for commodes. The top drawing depicts the cabinet as having an angelic mask in the center, at the top, surrounded by curving, vine-like designs. On the upper corner of the first commode, there is a grotesque, diabolic head. The second commode is similar, but without the mask or head and with a slightly varied pattern.
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- Title: Deux différents desseins de Comodes
- Creator: Jean-François Cuvilliés
- Creator Lifespan: 1698/1768
- Date Created: 1745–55
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux (D. 80 and 81)
- Inscribed: On plate, upper right: F; upper center, in the image: Deux diferents desseins de Comodes.; lower center, in the image: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait/la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; center, in the image: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait/la Couronement de la Comode Sy dessus.; lower left: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés; lower center: C.P.S.C.M.; lower right: gravé par C.A. de Lespilliez/3
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008," March 7 - July 6, 2008.
- Dimensions: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson, "Ornament of Bizarre Imagination," in Sarah Coffin et. al, Rococo, The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 (New York: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2008), p.66, fig. 36.
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