Caption
Different views of cradle, Furniture donated to Marie Louise of Austria, Description of the toilette present with a majestée l'impératrice-reine, print, Series number, 5, printmaker: Adrien Louis Marie Cavelier, printmaker: Jean Antoine Pierron, after design by Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, after design by Pierre Philippe Thomire, after design by Pierre Prud'hon, printer (person): Christophe Jean François Ballard, Paris, publisher: Jean Antoine Pierron, publisher: Adrien Louis Marie Cavelier, 1811, Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, Pierre Philippe Thomire, Pierre Prud'hon, Christophe Jean François Ballard, printmaker, after design by, printer (person), publisher, paper, etching, height 239 mm x width 321 mm, Part of a cover with prints featuring furniture designed by Pierre Prud'hon. This furniture was presented to Marie Louise of Austria on the occasion of the birth of her son Francis Charles Joseph Napoleon II Bonaparte., furniture for babies, A detailed line drawing shows three tall ornamental pedestal structures with curved supports and human figures, the center pedestal topped by a vertical elongated form ending in wings and a wreath, the left and center pedestals featuring elaborately patterned bowls and decorative bands, each supported by winged cherub-like figures standing on crossed curved legs, to the right two rectangular bas-relief panels depict reclining mythological figures with flowing drapery and a small winged figure above one panel, the composition is rendered in fine sepia lines on a pale background with a faint rectangular border.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B24_290
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