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Arabesque Design
Juste-François Boucher (French, 1736 – 1782)
ca. 1775
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Prints
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Arabesque design of two female figures on a low pedestal with mascaron, drapery, and acanthus leaves, holding up a medallion of a classicizing scene surrounded by scrolls, foliage, and a pinecone-topped censer.
