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Drawing, Design for a Brooch
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on blue-gray wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Grasset's Nymph.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Henry B. du Pont.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Henry B. du Pont.
- Drawing, Design for a Corsage Ornament: Night
- brush and watercolor, graphite, brush and gouache on brownish, translucent....
- Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund through gift of The....
- 1998-50-1
Its dimensions are
17.6 x 22.7 cm (6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
It is signed
Lower right below image, monogram
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 6 1/2
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Brooch; Designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset (Swiss, 1841 – 1917; active Paris, France 1871–1917); France; brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on blue-gray wove paper; 17.6 x 22.7 cm (6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Henry B. du Pont; 1954-41-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.