Design for a wall decoration. View of red colored wall with grotesques above a rendering of a marble wall with inlaid squares and circles. Grotesque motif consists of open framework compartments surmounted with figures at left and right and draped material at center.

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Print, Wall Decoration, Domus Aurea, Rome, 1776–77

This is a Print. It was designed by Franciszek Smugliewicz and Vincenzo Brenna and printed by Marco Carloni. It is dated 1776–77 and we acquired it in 1961. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor, over etching trimmed to the plate mark. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Peter Josten. It is credited Gift of Peter W. Josten.

Design for a wall panel. At the bottom, two satyrs sacrifice flowers at the foot of a burning candelabrum. The satyrs support, with their heads, two half female figures (half female and half flower stem). The figures hold a medallion with a maenad. A putto, supporting a vase, stands on top of the medallion. At the very to center of the composition are two billing doves and at the edges two putti. The putti hold festoons and garlands from which then flower baskets are suspended. The doves hold long garlands, which are then connected to two female figures (one at each side of the central composition). These female figures in turn stand on long decorative spears, which rest on the end tips of the half female figures.

Drawing, Panel of Arabesques for the Hôtel de Salm, Paris, 1785
pen and black ink, brush and gouache, black chalk on toned paper, lined.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-219

Its dimensions are

50.2 x 54.8 cm (19 3/4 x 21 9/16 in. )

Cite this object as

Print, Wall Decoration, Domus Aurea, Rome, 1776–77; Designed by Franciszek Smugliewicz and Vincenzo Brenna; Italy; brush and gouache, watercolor, over etching trimmed to the plate mark; 50.2 x 54.8 cm (19 3/4 x 21 9/16 in. ); Gift of Peter W. Josten; 1961-176-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cvdg/
Accession Number 1961-176-1
Object ID 18438795