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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2024

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Album, Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings

This is a Album. It was designed by Nicolas Pineau and Jacques-François Blondel and published by Jean Mariette, Louis Crépy and Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. It is dated ca. 1720–73 and we acquired it in 1920. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 41 × 30.3 cm (16 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 188

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings; Designed by Nicolas Pineau (French, 1684-1754), Jacques-François Blondel (French, 1705 - 1774); Published by Louis Crépy, Jean Mariette (1660–1742), Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); H x W: 41 × 30.3 cm (16 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-374

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