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Interior of a Man's Living Room

S. Tolstoi1853 ?

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

This living/ bed room features a curtained archway with a cartouche at the center. The green flowered curtain fabric is matched in the seat furniture and window curtains. The floor is covered with a Persian carpet in a blue and rose floral pattern. An unmade bed at the right, clothes draped over chairs, a nightstand with a candlestick, slippers on the floor and a desk at the widow create a gentleman's work-and-sleep environment.

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  • Title: Interior of a Man's Living Room
  • Creator: S. Tolstoi
  • Creator Lifespan: 1850/1899
  • Date Created: 1853 ?
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Thaw Collection
  • Medium: Brush and watercolor on heavy wove paper
  • Signed: Lower right, in Cyrillic characters in ochre watercolor, and faintly dated: S. Tolstoi 1853 (?)
  • Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Shepherd Gallery, New York
  • Paper Support: Heavy wove paper
  • Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 24.9 x 35.3 cm (9 13/16 x 13 7/8 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), 120, pl. 55.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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