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Design for a Nymph Comb
Eugène Grassetca. 1900
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design for a comb in gold and enamel. The upper part represents a nude figure of a woman rising from the waves.
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- Title: Design for a Nymph Comb
- Creator: Eugène Samuel Grasset
- Creator Lifespan: 1841/1917
- Date Created: ca. 1900
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
- Medium: Brush and gouache; graphite on gray wove paper
- Provenance: Henri Vever Collection
- Paper Support: gray wove paper
- Inscribed: Numbered in pencil at lower right: 8
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource", March 26, 1991 - August 30, 1992. (exhibited rotation 3: 11/18/91 - 4/13/92).Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, "A Jeweler's Eye," November 20, 1988 - April 30, 1989.New York, NY - CHNDM, "Objects of Adornment: 5000 Years of Jewelry in the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore", October 16, 1984 - January 6, 1985.New York, NY - The East River Savings Bank, William St. Branch, September 26 - October 23, 1969.Syracuse, NY - Syracuse University School of Art, "Art Nouveau", December 1 - 27, 1964. p. 18, no. 103.New York, NY - Cooper Union Museum, "Nineteenth Century Jewelry", April 23 - June 17, 1955. no. 400.Portland, OR - Portland Art Museum, "Jewelry Exhibition", November 1952 - January 1953.Pasadena, CA - The Pasadena Art Insitute, "The Turn of the Century," November 19 - December 20, 1953.
- Dimensions: 32.9 x 25.5 cm (12 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson, "Emulation and Subversion, Nineteenth-Century Rococo Revivals in the Graphic Arts," in Sarah Coffin et. al, Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 (New York: Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2008), p.175, fig. 12.
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