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1915

  • Work on this object began.

1935

  • Work on this object ended.

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for a Bracket Lamp

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is graphite; red, blue color pencil support: white heavy wove paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.

  • Mirror
  • cherry or pearwood, mirror glass, paint, gold leaf.
  • Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift,....
  • 66.2016.9
  • Textile (France)
  • silk.
  • Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund and through gift of various donors.
  • 1990-128-1

Its dimensions are

52 x 75 cm (20 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) Mat: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamps: Stamped in black at lower right: Companie des Arts Fran ais [cornucopia with flowers]; at lower right in black: 3026; S e et Mare stamp in gray at upper center/right.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Bracket Lamp; France; graphite; red, blue color pencil support: white heavy wove paper, lined; 52 x 75 cm (20 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) Mat: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.); Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn; 1992-70-5

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