Design for Table, Plate 2 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"
Medium
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number
1921-6-75-2
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
This elegant print, created around 1780 by French designer Juste-François Boucher, offers a window into the refined world of late eighteenth-century decorative arts. As Plate 2 from the series “Six Tables Grecques &ules,” it presents a detailed design for a neoclassical table inspired by ancient Greek forms. Boucher, son of the celebrated rococo painter François Boucher, specialized in furniture and ornament designs that helped shape the emerging taste for classical simplicity and symmetry during the final decades of the French monarchy. Printed works like this one played a vital role in diss...