Design for a Sofa, from: Nouvelle Iconographie Historique III, series Q
Design for a large sofa in a late Louis XV style. The sofa is divided up in five parts. In the center on top of the sofa a Chinese figure is depicted holding up a parasol. The upholstery of the sofa is decorated with the fables of Fox and Crane and Wolf and Heron (Jean de la Fontaine).
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a Sofa, from: Nouvelle Iconographie Historique III, series Q
- Artist: Duval (active ca. 1750 (?)–1780)
- Publisher: Jean François Daumont (French, active 1740–75)
- Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
- Date: 1771 or after
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/8 × 13 3/16 in. (23.2 × 33.5 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929
- Object Number: 29.58.32(37)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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