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Drawing, Design for a Music Pavilion in the Tuileries Garden Fountain, 1834

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Félix-Jacques Duban and Abel Blouet. It is dated 1834 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on light tan paper mounted on off-white 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

sheet: 7 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (18.7 x 22.2 cm) mount: 11 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (28.9 x 44.3 cm)

It is inscribed

(by a later hand) in graphite at lower margin of mount: Orchestre place dans le bassin des Tuileries, par Mr. Duban/fêtes de Juillet 1834.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Music Pavilion in the Tuileries Garden Fountain, 1834; Attributed to Félix-Jacques Duban (French, 1798 - 1870), Abel Blouet; France; brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on light tan paper mounted on off-white paper; sheet: 7 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (18.7 x 22.2 cm) mount: 11 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (28.9 x 44.3 cm); Museum purchase through gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, gift of Phyllis Dearborn Massar and from General Purchase Fund; 1991-17-7

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