Design for a Triumpal Arch for Napoleon I, Bergamo, Italy
Object Details
- Attributed to
- Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian, 1744 - 1817
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Architectural design for a triumphal arch. Within the archway stands a group of two adult figures and a boy with a dog. Alternatively suggested on the arch are a coat-of-arms upon an eagle at left and a tablet for an inscription at right. Pediment above. At right, some bushes and indication of landscape. Below, the scale.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1800–12
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3743
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.2 × 44.7 cm (13 7/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-3743
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b41f3ad2-90df-4039-87ba-2d06856afd29
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