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Print, L'Une des Faces de la Chambre à Coucher de Mme G. à Pari
This is a 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
Print, L'Une des Faces de la Chambre à Coucher de Mme G. à Pari; Designed by Charles Percier (French, 1764–1838), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762–1853); Published by P. Didot l'aîné (French); France; 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; 1921-6-377-1
