Design for a Trompe-l'Oeil Ceiling with Mars and Venus Reclining on a Cloud, Flanked by Vertical Panels, from a Series of Six Plates with Ceiling Designs, part of Œuvres du Sr. D. Marot
Daniel Marot the Elder French
Published by Pierre Husson Dutch
Not on view
Trompe-l'oeil design for a ceiling, with three vertical panels. On the central panel, a celestial scene with Mars and Venus. At either side of the central panel, beams with roundels, and putti on cartouches. From an untitled series of six plates with ceiling designs, five of which show trompe l'oeil paintings with mythological scenes in the central compartment. The last plate has a blank central compartment.