Creator: Attributed to Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721, French, active in Britain (from ca. 1684) Title: Sketch for an oval ceiling Date: ca. 1705 Materials & Techniques: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 14 x 17 inches (35.6 x 43.2 cm) Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright Status: Public Domain Accession Number: B1976.7.49 Classification: Paintings Collection: Paintings and Sculpture Subject Terms: clouds | architectural subject | scroll (information artifact) | costume | wing (costume accessory) | trumpets | cherubs | putti | round | oval | babies | children | quill (feather) | writing (processes) | decoration | men | women | musical instruments | ceiling Currently On View: Not on view Publications: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 136-137, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) Link: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:284