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Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta
Nicola Fiore1775
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Divided into three panels. In front of the dado of the central one stands a console table. Above it is a mirror with a candle bracket with four candles at either side. On top is a panel with a Chinese scene. The lateral panels are intended to have a dado and a rectangularly framed oblong Chinese representation, country scenes at left, worship of God at right. Above is the lower part of the enablature.
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Details
- Title: Wall Decoration for the Drawing Room of the Palace of Caserta
- Creator: Nicola Fiore
- Date Created: 1775
- Physical Dimensions: w545 x h623 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gouache, watercolor on off-white laid paper
- Signed: Signed lower right corner: Nicola Fiore
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, Cambridge, MA
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Inscribed: Signed, dated and inscribed in pen and black ink at lower margin: Stanza diCompagnia del Palazzo Reale di Caserta 1775 Nicola Fiore Regio Ingre [regioIngegnere]
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The China Trade and Its Influence." April 1- April 30, 1941. Cincinnatti, OH - The Taft Museum. "China and the Sea Trade." October 2 - December 9, 1945. New York, NY - CUM. "Five Centuries of Drawing." The Cooper Union Centennial Exhibition. Selected and arranged by The Cooper Union Museum, organized by The American Federation of Arts. November 11, 1959 - November 11, 1961.Northampton, MA - Smith College Museum of Art. "Chinoiserie." April 28 - June 7, 1965.Washington D.C. - Smithsonian Institution, NCFA. "Treasures from the Cooper-Union Museum." July 13 - September 24, 1967.New York, NY - Finch College Museum of Art. "The Two Siciclies." February 4 - March 20, 1970. London, England - V&A. "An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design." June 1- August 1, 1973. New York, NY - Cooper-Hewitt Museum. "More than Meets the Eye." November 15, 1977- March 15 1978. "Idee und Anspruch der Architektur." Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Colgne, Germany. December 13, 1979 - January 27 1980. Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Museum. "The Art of Decoration Drawings and Objects from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum." December 19, 1973 - Februrary 3, 1974. V&A Catalogue.
- Dimensions: 62.3 x 54.5cm (24 1/2 x 21 7/16in.)
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