Apollo personifying Poetry
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
- 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
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-59-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4377e4f0e-241a-4a48-94ea-40886c9e3662
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