# Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling), in Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre's contemporaries

Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre drew this in 1761, aged 47. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Image of an oval ceiling, without the room setting. At the center, a view at the sky passing an oval entablature. In the sky are Apollo, the Muses and genii. The entablature is supported by arches through which parts of further structures are shown.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1761
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and black wash on two sheets of off-white heavy laid paper joined together horizonatally, lined
- Dimensions: 41.3 x 61.6 cm (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1931-70-37
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-baptiste-marie-pierre), French, 1714–1789

1 works in the collection.

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