Design for a Fireworks Display
Design for a Fireworks Display

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Design for a Fireworks Display,

ca. 1747

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, French, 1715–1790
2021-104

Information

Title
Design for a Fireworks Display
Dates

ca. 1747

Maker
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger
Medium
Pen and black ink and grey wash, with framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
17.1 × 10.8 cm (6 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.) mount: 27.9 × 20.8 cm (11 × 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
2021-104
Signatures
Signed in ink, lower left margin: C. N. Cochin filius delin.
Inscription
in ink, bottom margin: Dessein d’un Feu d’Artifice pour la Prise d’une Ville.
Culture
French
Type
preparatory studies, drawings
Materials
ink, wash
Subject
arches, fireworks (visual works)

Probably Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712-1784), Paris;

probably his sale, Paris, 15 April, 1776;

Galerie Cailleux, Paris;

Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York;

private collection.

Stephen Ongpin Fine Arts, London;

Princeton University Art Museum

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