Design for Cornice of Oblong Ceiling, Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734–1791, Pen and black ink, brush and grey and black wash, graphite, One quarter of the ceiling is shown. A circular medallion portrait of a woman is obliquely shown over a satyr mask and festoons in the corner. It is topped by a pair of doves, Cupid and Hymen. The sides are to show censers between acanthus spirals and behind festoons., France, 1770–80, architecture, Drawing

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