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Design for a Belt Buckle with Peacock Motif

Eugène Grasset1900

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Design uses double addorsed peacocks on either side of ornamental tree of life; profile sections in graphite also shown at right and below, and detail of peacock profile head at center right.

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  • Title: Design for a Belt Buckle with Peacock Motif
  • Creator: Eugène Samuel Grasset
  • Creator Lifespan: 1841/1917
  • Date Created: 1900
  • Physical Dimensions: w249 x h328 cm
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
  • Medium: Brush and gouache, light green watercolor, graphite on buff wove paper
  • Signed: In graphite at lower right: EG (monogram)
  • Provenance: Henri Vever Collection; Pierre Béres, Inc.
  • Paper Support: Buff wove paper
  • Inscribed: Numbered in graphite at upper right: 99; at right of brooch: A/ B and below buckle: AB
  • Exhibitions: Paris, France - Musée du Luxembourg, "Lalique and His Time", March 27 - July 29, 2007. (first venue only)New York, NY - CHNDM. Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource. June 4 - August 30, 1998.New York, NY - CHM. The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource. March 26, 1991-August 30, 1992.L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France, 1789-1989, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, March 30 - July 16, 1989.Art Nouveau, Virgnia Museum of Fine Arts, November 22, 1971 - December 26, 1971.Art Nouveau, Syracuse University, School of Art, December 1, 1964 - January 3, 1965.New York, NY - CUM. "Five Centuries of Drawing." The Cooper Union Centennial Exhibition. Selected and arranged by The Cooper Union Museum, organized by The American Federation of Arts. November 11, 1959 - November 11, 1961.The Turn of the Century, Art Institute, Pasadena, California, November 19-December 20, 1953.
  • Dimensions: 32.8 x 24.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 13/16in.)
  • Bibliography: Charlotte Gere, Victorian Jewelry Design, London: Wm. Kimber & Co., Ltd., l972, p. 169, pl. 84a.Victor Arwas, Berthon and Grasset, London: Academy Editions (Rizzoli), l978, p. 83.Russell Lynnes, More Than Meets the Eye, New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981, p. 64"Cooper-Hewitt Collections," Antiques and Auction News, Mount Joy, PA: Joel Sater Publications, Friday, February 14, 1992
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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