Book, Print, Recueil de decorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ornement

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Book, Print, Recueil de decorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ornement

This is a Book, Print. It was designed by Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine and published by P. Didot l'aîné. It is dated 1812 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This volume of chaste contour engravings (also available hand-colored), produced by Napoleon’s favored decorators, elaborated Empire style, which survived in France until about 1875. In addition to painted arabesque motifs, Percier and Fontaine’s designs promoted distinctive furniture types such as circular tripod stands, Greek-inspired klismos chairs, and beds with scrolled ends, simplified versions of which appear in many Thaw Collection interiors. These prints also helped inspire the fad for commissioning and collecting watercolor interiors.
Label Chat for House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Open: 13 x 57.5 x 45.6 cm (5 1/8 x 22 5/8 x 17 15/16 in.) Overall: 22.9 x 66 x 55.9 cm (9 x 26 x 22 in.) Sheet: 43.8 x 28.8 cm (17 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Book, Print, Recueil de decorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ornement; Designed by Charles Percier (French, 1764–1838), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762–1853); Published by P. Didot l'aîné (French); etching on cream wove paper; Open: 13 x 57.5 x 45.6 cm (5 1/8 x 22 5/8 x 17 15/16 in.) Overall: 22.9 x 66 x 55.9 cm (9 x 26 x 22 in.) Sheet: 43.8 x 28.8 cm (17 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-377

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/BLnna/
Accession Number 1921-6-377
Object ID 404734159