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1991

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2015

2025

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Drawing, Ornamental woodwork detail

This is a Drawing. It was created by Félix-Jacques Duban. It is dated 1833 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush, pen, watercolor, possibly gouache, black ink wash support: off-white paper mounted on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, gift of Phyllis Dearborn Massar and from General Purchase Fund.

Its dimensions are

14.5 x 22.3 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.) 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed by a later hand in graphite on mount at center: F tes de Juillet 1833; at lower margin: Peintures decoratives du theatre de Franconi/dans le grand carr des champs-elys es/1833.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Ornamental woodwork detail; Félix-Jacques Duban (French, 1798 - 1870); France; brush, pen, watercolor, possibly gouache, black ink wash support: off-white paper mounted on off-white laid paper; 14.5 x 22.3 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.) 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, gift of Phyllis Dearborn Massar and from General Purchase Fund; 1991-17-5

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