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Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknownca. 1890

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

The salon is filled with comfortable furnishings in the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles grouped around a central circular white marble fountain with a female figure riding in a shell-like chariot pulled by a dolphin (?). In the right foreground, a suite of Louis XV-style furniture consisting of a canapé (setee) and two fauteuils (armchairs) upholstered in tapestry. A fauteuil à oreille (wing chair) seen from the back is upholstered in damask. Between the furniture, a Louis XVI neoclassical style table displays a Japanese vase holding flowers. A lacquered Chinoiserie-style folding screen is in the right corner. Along the wall, to the left of the screen, an eighteenth-century commode with gilt-bronze mounts displays a marble bust and a bronze-mounted Sèvres object. To the left of the fountain, a suite of furniture is gathered in front of a Boulle-style commode displaying a bronze-mounted Sevres vase, a gilt-bronze surtout-de-table, and a fan-shaped vase. In the drawing's upper right corner an as yet unidentified coat of arms with two joined "L"s enclosed by a wreath beneath which is an insignia of two clasped hands around a vertical shaft holding a red Phyrgian cap. This coat of arms has been identified as belonging to Argintina (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_ of_ Argentina).

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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