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Artist:
Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823  Search this
Medium:
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper
Dimensions:
29 x 23.7 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 in. x 15 5/8 in. x 1 in.)
Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)
Type:
interiors
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Made in:
France
Date:
1807
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
In the foreground, a boudoir with vaulted ceiling decorated in the arches with wreaths and alternating thunderbolts. A chandelier is suspended from center of the ceiling. Marble floor in geometric pattern in soft green, blue, and pink is covered on either side of room by long, flowered carpets. Console tables in front of pier mirrors hold Etruscan-style porcelain and gilded vases with bouquets. A white marble-top table at left has group of silver-gilt necessities for the bath: a ewer, basin, and water pitcher. Across the room at right a resting alcove showing a reclining chaise with horizontally tufted upholstery. At rear, porticos on either side of central entrance to lower-level semi-circular bathing room are supported by Corinthian columns. Large white swans, on inner edge of cornice, spew streams of water. Semicircular dome of bathing room decorated with bands of elongated vases and flowers terminating in acanthus motifs. White draped curtain caught with palmettes runs width of bathing room. At center, a seated woman in bathing pool, her hair washed (?) by a servant. Two women, wearing blue Empire dresses, also attend the woman, one holds towel, the other pours water into pool. At far right, a woman dressed in white gown, pulls aside the curtain of dressing area.
Credit Line:
Thaw Collection
Accession Number:
2012-5-4
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d5845b4c-de45-4ab6-b927-699a57561e30
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_2012-5-4