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Design for a Belt Buckle with Two Fish and Seaweed
Eugène Grasset1900
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Details
- Title: Design for a Belt Buckle with Two Fish and Seaweed
- Creator: Eugène Samuel Grasset
- Creator Lifespan: 1841/1917
- Date Created: 1900
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
- Medium: Brush and watercolor and gouache; graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Signed: Signed in graphite with monogram at bottom right of design
- Provenance: Henri Vever Collection (design for Paris Exhibition of 1900); Pierre Béres, Inc.
- Paper Support: gray-green wove paper
- Inscribed: Numbered in graphite at lower right: 6
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM. Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center. June 4-August 30, 1998.New York, NY - CHNDM. L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989. March 30-July 16, 1989.New York, NY - CHNDM. Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Collection of the Watlers Art Gallery, Baltimore. October 16, 1984-January 6, 1985.New York, NY - Cooper Union Museum. Nineteenth Century Jewelry. April 23 - June 17, 1955.New Haven, CN - Yale University Art Gallery, February 3-March 1, 1955.Pasadena, CA - Art Institute, The Turn of the Century, November 19-December 20, 1953.
- Dimensions: 32.1 x 24.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: C. Arminjon, et al. L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France, 1789-1989. New York: The Vendome Press and Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1989, p. 211 [illus.pl. 360].
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