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Design for a Cabinet in the "Boulle" Style
Pagny1856–88
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This drawing depicts an architecturally imposing cabinet in the "Boulle" style, veneered in ebony and symmetrically decorated with marquetry after Berain. Oval panels dominate the cabinet doors. Masked mounts and cartouches are additional decorative elements.
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Details
- Title: Design for a Cabinet in the "Boulle" Style
- Creator: Pagny
- Creator Lifespan: 1856/1888
- Date Created: 1856–88
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- Medium: Brush and black ink, wash, yellow gouache, brown watercolor, graphite on heavy white paper
- Paper Support: White wove paper
- Inscribed: Stamped in black, upper right corner: 20
- Dimensions: 25.3 x 39.2 cm (10 x 15 15/16 in)
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