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Artist's Studio in Berlin
Karl Wilhelm Streckfuss1860s
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This is a study in watercolor for an oil painting of the same room by the same artist. It is possible that the subject is the artist’s own studio, with his wife or another family member at the piano. Implements of the artist, plaster casts, an easel and paintings are seen. Decoration is limited to the red lace lambrequins at the windows.
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- Title: Artist's Studio in Berlin
- Creator: Karl Wilhelm Streckfuss
- Creator Lifespan: 1817/1896
- Date Created: 1860s
- Type: Watercolor
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and gouache on white paper
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Lestranger, Paris
- Paper Support: White paper
- 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: 60.3 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 x 1 in.)Sheet: 28.7 x 29.2 cm (11 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: 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), 100, pl. 30.Peter Thornton, Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior, 1620-1920 (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984) [Illus.].
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