An Elaborate Ceiling with Trellises and Seated Figures

c. 1700

Jean Bérain

Artist, French, 1640 - 1711

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over black chalk, squared in red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.1 x 34.9 cm (9 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.73.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, 1976); (Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (Lugt undesc), by 1989); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Ornament aud Vierhundert Jahre, C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, 1970, no. 9.

1985

  • Wanden en Plafonds. Tekeningen uit de verzameling Lodewijk Houthakker, Nijmeegs Museum 'Commanderie van Sant Jan,' Nijmegen and Haarlem, 1985, no. 53.

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. Amsterdam, 1989: no. 416 (as Paul Decker).

Wikidata ID

Q64580995

You may be interested in

Loading Results