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A Masquerade
Jean-Charles Delafosse1770–80
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A crowd in fancy dress in a hall, showing a buffet in the center of a peristyle in the rear; the musicians are disposed in two balconies; onlookers on galleries.
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- Title: A Masquerade
- Creator: Jean-Charles Delafosse
- Creator Lifespan: 1734/1791
- Date Created: 1770–80
- Physical Dimensions: w401 x h308 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper
- Viewing Notes: Crowds of people in formal dress populate this massive and ornately decorated hall, showing a buffet in the center of a peristyle in the rear. Muscians are disposed in two balconies on either side, and onlookers sit in niches above.
- Provenance: Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: Support: white laid paper
- Markings: Marks: Strasburg lily with pendant A (RB '45)
- Inscribed: inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: J. ch. Delafosse
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource, March 26, 1991 - August 30, 1992, (exhibited rotation 1: 3/26/91 - 7/8/91).Providence, Rhode Island - Brown University, Festivities, March 3 - 25, 1979.New York, NY - Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Drawings and Prints of hte Eighteenth Century, August 8 - October 15, 1972, no. 14.London - Royal Academy of Arts, France in the Eighteenth Century, January 6 - March 3, 1968, no.184, fig. 306.Columbus, Ohio - School of Art, Ohio State University, Eighteenth-Century Architectural Drawings, April 22 - May 14, 1965.Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, French Masters, Rococo to Romanticism, March 5 - April 18, 1961. no. 52. New York, NY - Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Drawings from American Collections, February 3 - March 15, 1959. no. 41 (illus.).France - Musee de l'Orangerie, Van Clouet a Matisse, October 24, 1958 - January 2, 1959, no. 41 (illus.).Rotterdam, Netherlands - Boymans Museum, Van Clouet to Matisse, July 30 - September 28, 1958. no. 41 (illus.).Kansas City, Missouri - Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, The Century of Mozart, January 15 - March 4, 1956.
- Dimensions: 30.8 x 40.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)12 3/16 x 15 3/4 in.Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
- Bibliography: Cara Denison, Myra Nan Rosenfeld and Stephanie Wiles, Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries, New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, p. 188.Connaisance des Arts, no. 136 (June 1963) p. 112 (illus.).Richard Wunder, Extravagant Drawings of the 18th Century, New York: Lambert-Spector,1962, p. 93, no. 5 (illus.).Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Bulletin, Vol. 1 no. 1 (1956), p. 35, no. 134, fig. 25.
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