Ceiling Design, plate 39 from "Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques et modernes..."
Jacques LePautre|Adam Philippon
1645 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
Published as part of a series designed and published by Philippon in 1645, reproducing elements of Italian architecture, this print shows part of an ornamented ceiling. Below, an octagonal coffer contains an image of Aeneas fleeing Troy with Anchises and Ascanius. Above is a rosette surrounded by figures and acanthus scrolls in a star-shaped panel.
- Artist
- Jacques LePautre|Adam Philippon
- Date
- 1645
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
