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Wall Elevation for an Antechamber or Salon
Louis-Gustave Taravalca. 1785
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Sheet depicts a wall with three shallow niches. The middle niche is larger than the side niches. In each niche, a pink sofa is placed under/against a framed green panel with tied-back pink curtain on either side. In front of the pilasters separating the niches, stand statues of pairs of putti holding a candle, elevated on round bases. Above, on the pilasters, portrait medallions are suspended.
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- Title: Wall Elevation for an Antechamber or Salon
- Creator: Louis-Gustave Taraval
- Creator Lifespan: 1738/1794
- Date Created: ca. 1785
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on laid paper
- Signed: Signed in pen and black ink at lower left with the monogram: "LGT"; and at the lower right: "Taraval"
- Provenance: Hippolyte Destailleur (sale, Paris, May 19, 1896, no. 531); Leon Decloux
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "Crosscurrents: Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", September 19 - November 5, 1978. no. 38; traveled to Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, AZ, 7/24/79 - 8/30/79; Institute fro the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX 9/29/79-10/28/79; Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queens University, Kingston Ontario, Canada, 1/5/80 - 2/3/80; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Oh, 2/23/80-3/23/80; Art Gallery of Antario, Toronto, Canada, 5/31/80-6/29/80; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, 9/13/80-10/12/80. (no. 101, p. 116)London, England - The Arts Council of Great Britain, "The Age of Neo-Classicism", September 7 - November 1972, cat. no. 1525, p. 714
- Dimensions: 45.5 x 63.2 cm (17 15/16 x 24 7/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Catherine Bindman. Designer's Guide to French Patterns. London, 1993, no. 70, p. 74, repr. in b&w. Crosscurrents: Neoclassical Drawings & Prints form the Cooper-Hewitt MuseumCa (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978) no. 101, p. 116.The Age of Neoclassicism, Royal Academy and Victoria and Albert Musuem. London, 1972, no. 1525
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