Plate 2, 'Decoration de cheminée pour un grand Apartement', Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705 - 1774, Jean Mariette, 1660–1742, Engraving on paper, Printed from two plates. A) a richly decorated fireplace with a mirror set into a shallow niche. Decoration: foliage, flowers, putti, and a painting representing the birth of Venus in the upper part of the mirror. Candlesticks with putti on mantlepiece. B) profiles of wall with legend. Inscribed along lower margin of A: 'Decoration de Cheminée, accopagnée … une Gallerie'; along lower margin of B: 'A Paris chez Mariette … d'Hercules'; lower left: '2'., France, ca. 1727, Print, Print
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Plate 2, 'Decoration de cheminée pour, grand Apartement', Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705 - 1774, Jean Mariette, 1660–1742, Engraving, paper, Printed, two plates, richly decorated fireplace, mirror set, shallow niche, Decoration, foliage, flowers, putti, painting representing, birth, Venus, upper part, mirror, Candlesticks, putti, mantlepiece, B, profiles, wall, legend, Inscribed, lower margin, 'Decoration de Cheminée, accopagnée …, Gallerie', lower margin, B, 'A Paris chez Mariette … d'Hercules', lower left, '2', France, ca, 1727, Print
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