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Print, Trompe l'Oeil Painting, Decoration for the Staircase, De Voorst, The Netherlands, Plate from "Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d'Escaliers"

This is a Print. It was created by Daniel Marot and made for (as the client) Arnold Joost van Keppel. It is dated ca. 1700 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is etching on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

Its dimensions are

34 x 22.6 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.) Platemark/repeat: 27.7 x 19.5 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.) Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

It has the following markings

watermark, mostly illegible: jug (?)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in plate, lower margin: Le Petit Cote de Escallier de Voorst invente et conduit par D. Moarot avec Previllege des Etats Generaux des/ Provinces Vrie et d'Hollande et We. frise.

Cite this object as

Print, Trompe l'Oeil Painting, Decoration for the Staircase, De Voorst, The Netherlands, Plate from "Nouveaux livres de peintures de salles et d'Escaliers"; Daniel Marot (French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752); Client: Arnold Joost van Keppel; France; etching on white laid paper; 34 x 22.6 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.) Platemark/repeat: 27.7 x 19.5 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.) Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 1988-4-39

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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