Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures
ca. 1650–70
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions
7 1/16 x 9 in. (17.9 x 22.9 cm.)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.692
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the opulent world of 17th-century French interiors with Antoine Le Pautre's *Design for a Wall Decoration Chimneypiece and Figures* (ca. 1650–70). This delicate drawing captures a grand architectural fantasy: an elaborate chimneypiece flanked by a man and woman, poised elegantly amid scrolling ornamentation. Le Pautre, a leading Parisian architect and designer during Louis XIV's reign, specialized in such ornamental schemes that blended architecture with decorative flair, influencing the lavish hôtels particuliers of the aristocracy. Rendered in pen and brown ink with brush and brow...