[Rinceau and festoon frieze featuring winged herm-like figure and medallion] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Rinceau and festoon frieze featuring winged herm-like figure and medallion], [between 1820 and 1850] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/616fd6e8a983-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures [Rinceau and festoon frieze featuring winged herm-like figure and medallion] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Rather than a finished wall, this watercolor is a working design for a frieze of scrolling rinceaux and hanging festoons, with a winged herm-like figure and a central medallion. It faces a plate from Jean Le Pautre's *Oeuvres d'architecture*, published in 1751, which was pasted into an album of source material, and the male figure in that engraving appears to have shaped the figure drawn here. Constantino Brumidi, the Italian-born painter later known for his decorative work at the United States Capitol, used such albums to build his ornamental vocabulary, and this sheet shows how borrowed classical motifs were adapted into new decoration.
| Created / published | [between 1820 and 1850] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : watercolor. |
| Genre | Design drawings 1820-1850.Watercolors 1820-1850. |
| Notes | Painted opposite a plate from Jean Le Pautre's OEuvres d'architecture..., 1751, which was pasted into an album (with other plates from the same work) by Constantino Brumidi for use as a source book for his mural designs; male figure in plate appears to have influenced the depiction of the male figure in the drawing. Opp. no. 27. |
| Subjects | United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1820-1850. Herms--1820-1850. Medallions (Architecture)--1820-1850. Festoons--1820-1850. Friezes (Ornamental bands)--1820-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183429 |
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