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A Couple Seated on a Bed
Israhel van Meckenem1495–1503
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
View of the interior of a bedroom--of a canopied bed on a dais under which is visible a chamber pot and slippers. At left, the door latch is secured closed with a knife. Upon the bed, a young man wearing a plumed hat and a mantle wraps his arm around the woman seated beside him. They gaze intently at one another.
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- Title: A Couple Seated on a Bed
- Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
- Creator Lifespan: 1440/1503
- Date Created: 1495–1503
- Physical Dimensions: w114 x h171 cm
- Type: Print
- Rights: Gift of Mrs. Leo Wallerstein
- Medium: Engraving on white laid paper
- Signed: Engraved in lower margin, center: · I · M ·
- Provenance: Leo Wallerstein
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, Design for Life, September 30, 1997-January 11, 1998
- Dimensions: 17.1 x 11.4 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. )
- Bibliography: Susan Yelavich, Design for Life, exh. cat. (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1997), pp. 98, 114, no. 1.Gail S. Davidson, "The Inside Story," in Gail S. Davidson et al. House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), p. 10, fig. 2.
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