Lit à la Chinoise (Chinese Bed), from Nouvelle iconologie historique (part III, series marked 'G')
Design for a canopy bed decorated with Chinese figures. The bed is presented from the side and is characterized by a baldachin-shaped canopy crowned by a plume of feathers.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lit à la Chinoise (Chinese Bed), from Nouvelle iconologie historique (part III, series marked 'G')
- Artist: Jean Charles Delafosse (French, Paris 1734–1789 Paris)
- Publisher: Jean François Daumont (French, active 1740–75)
- Date: 1771 or after
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Plate: 13 × 9 1/8 in. (33 × 23.2 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929
- Object Number: 29.58.32(11)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
1770
Jean Charles Delafosse
before 1789
Jean Charles Delafosse
Dumont
ca. 1770
Jean Charles Delafosse
ca. 1768
Jean Charles Delafosse
18th century
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