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Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie]

This is a Drawing. It was created by Léon Feuchère. It is dated ca. 1844 and we acquired it in 2012. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on 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 Design for a Smoking Room.

It is credited Thaw Collection.

  • Square (Egypt)
  • warp: s-spun linen; wefts: s-spun linen, s-spun wool.
  • Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
  • 1902-1-116

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Its dimensions are

32.3 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (Mat): 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and brown ink, lower margin, right: L. Feuchère

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie]; Léon Feuchère (French, 1804 - 1857); France; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper; 32.3 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (Mat): 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Thaw Collection; 2012-5-2

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