Caption:
Design for a Garden, Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 16721742, Pen and brown ink with gray and brown washes on laid paper., Vertical rectangle., Recto: A garden doorway, flanked by atlantes and surmounted by a balustrade flanked by urn fountains and supporting an escutcheon held by putti with ducal arms. A figure seen through the door., Verso: Two urns one developed into suite XI plate 9, and a section of a circular ceiling cove showing two putti holding a ribbon, possibly Inspired by the vault decorations of S. Carlo ai Catinari, Rome., One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso., France, 169299, albums (bound) & books, Album page, Album page