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Drawing Room of a Sportsman

Emanuel Stöckler1856

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

This view, dominated by horse paintings, indicates a room belonging to a sportsman or racing enthusiast. However, the use of matching blue-and-white upholstery fabric on the Rococo Revival furniture and in the window swags is not especially masculine. On the left, a trellis screen appears to enclose tall potted plants. Both the slant desk and flattop desk are inspirations of the Biedermeier period.

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  • Title: Drawing Room of a Sportsman
  • Creator: Emanuel Stöckler
  • Creator Lifespan: 1819/1893
  • Date Created: 1856
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Thaw Collection
  • Medium: Brush and watercolor, gouache on white wove paper
  • Signed: Lower left: Stockler, 1856
  • Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Dorotheum, Vienna, March 26, 2004, lot 183
  • Paper Support: White wove 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: Old frame H x W x D: 49.5 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm (19 1/2 x 22 x 2 in.)Sheet: 35.1 x 44.6 cm (13 13/16 x 17 9/16 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),125, pl. 61.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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