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Apollo personifying Poetry

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

After

Pierre Dupuis, 1610 – 1682

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Rendering of a painted ceiling: Apollo personifying poetry - horizontal rectangle - in the centre, an oval medallion showing Apollo seated on a cloud bank playing his harp and attended by three putti - the enframement consists of four trophies of military subjects, flower garlands, medallions at the corners, and simulated apertures open to the sky, in which stand urns.

Credit Line

Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council

Date

ca. 1900

Accession Number

1911-28-59-b

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Object Name

Drawing

Type

Drawing

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on white paper

Dimensions

47.2 × 53 cm (18 9/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
Mount: 58 × 63.8 cm (22 13/16 × 25 1/8 in.)

made in

France

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4377e4f0e-241a-4a48-94ea-40886c9e3662

Record ID

chndm_1911-28-59-b

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