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A Room in the Governor's Residence, Hermannstadt (?)
M. Sekimca. 1840
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This opulent salon is apparently unused: the tables are without objects and the bookcase is bare. Formal red and white striped curtains, tasselled pelmets and lace undercurtains lend majesty to the room. A painted blind in the chinoiserie style is at the center window. The walls are hung with a coral patterned fabric. Acanthus leaves are interspersed with bouquets of roses on the coral ground of the carpet. Ornaments are limited to two paintings, one featuring a Madonna and Child; a gilt-bronze clock under a glass dome; and an inkwell.
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- Title: A Room in the Governor's Residence, Hermannstadt (?)
- Creator: M. Sekim
- Date Created: ca. 1840
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor and gouache with accents of gold paint and gum arabic
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; York House, Inc., New York, 1987
- Exhibitions: New York, NY , Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.
- Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 44.8 x 60.3 x 2.5 cm (17 5/8 x 23 3/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 33.4 x 40.9 cm (13 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Stefan Muthesius, The Poetic Home, Designing the 19th-century Domestic Interior (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009), 128 (illus.).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), 50, fig. 30; 111, pl. 43.Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 62-63 (illus.).
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