Design for a Painted Panel with Fortune and Jacques Necker

A tall, narrow pen-and-ink design with brush and grey wash shows a radiating burst of light at the top, a draped figure beside a wheel-like form, and a seated woman beside a pedestal with an urn. Below, dense scrollwork, masks, and an oval medallion fill the lower half of the vertical panel.

Artist

Claude-Louis Desrais

Date

1788–90

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and white gouache and sepia washes, black chalk on two pieces of off-white laid paper, joined

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

950 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum