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Drawing, Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms
This is a Drawing. It was created by Louis-Gustave Taraval and made for (as the client) Adolphus Frederick, King of Sweden. It is dated 1767 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray, green wash, watercolor, graphite on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In 1905, the Hewitt sisters were introduced to Jean-Léon Decloux in Paris during one of their acquisitions trips. Decloux collected drawings, print albums, and decorative arts objects, and soon became one of their agents for purchasing works on paper. To cement the relationship, he quickly donated examples of French ornamental paneling. On Decloux’s recommendation, the Hewitt sisters encouraged the museum’s advisory council to purchase over 500 drawings from Decloux’s collection in 1911; in 1921, the museum acquired 413 albums of Decloux’s ornament prints and related preparatory drawings.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Drawing, Chariot of Apollo, Ceiling Design for Count Bielinski's Cabinet,...
- pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, black chalk on....
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-214
- Drawing, Perspective Design for a Painted Dome and Cupola of a Church
- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-3461
- Mount (France)
- gilt bronze.
- Gift of Jacob H. Schiff.
- 1904-20-10
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- Sidewall, Britannia
- block printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of The Mary Washington Colonial Chapter, NSDAR.
- 2004-22-1
- Embroidered Picture (USA)
- wool, synthetic.
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer.
- 1981-28-131
Its dimensions are
46.9 x 56.3 cm (18 7/16 x 22 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
D C BLAUW.
It is signed
Signed in pen and black ink, bottom right: Taraval; in pen and black ink, within ruled border: inv. Taraval fecit.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper right, within ruled border (by later hand), in pen and black ink: D. 62; in pen and brown ink, verso: Projet demand de Su de pour la ville de Stockholm en 1767- / dessin et compos par L.G. Taraval, architecte, inspecteur des batimens du Roi / L G T (enclosed in monogram)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms; Louis-Gustave Taraval (French, 1738 – 1794); Client: Adolphus Frederick, King of Sweden (Swedish, 1710 - 1771); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray, green wash, watercolor, graphite on white laid paper; 46.9 x 56.3 cm (18 7/16 x 22 3/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-282
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Hewitt Sisters Collect and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
