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Wall Elevation of a Bedroom Alcove
Pierre Ransonca. 1780
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Details
- Title: Wall Elevation of a Bedroom Alcove
- Creator: Pierre Ranson
- Creator Lifespan: 1736/1786
- Date Created: ca. 1780
- Physical Dimensions: w720 x h281 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on white laid paper
- Provenance: Collection of Leon Decloux
- Paper Support: white laid paper
- Markings: watermark: Strasburg lily
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "From Background to Foreground: Looking at an Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper", November 24, 1992 - April 14, 1993.Milan, Italy - 17 A Triennale di Milano, "Il Progetto Domestico", January 16 - March 23, 1986.New York, NY - Wildenstein & Co., Inc. "New York and French Taste", November 2 - December 17, 1977, cat. no. 92, fig. 92.Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Museum, "Art of Decoration. Drawings and Objects from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974. cat. no. 112, p. 49.London, England - Victoria & Albert Museum/The Arts Council of Great Britain, "An American Museum of Decorative Arts and DEsgin. Designs from the Coper-Hewitt Collection, New York," June 14 - August 1973. cat. no. 112, p. 49.New York, NY - East Side Settlement House, Winter Antiques Show, 67th St. Armory, "Salute to Cooper-Hewitt Museum", January 21 - 30, 1972. cat. no. 64.
- Dimensions: 28.1 x 47.2 cm (11 1/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Furniture Past and Present Louise Ade Boger (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 165An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design: Designs from the Cooper- Hewitt Collection, New York Victoria and Albert Museum (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973), 49, no. 112Authentic Decor Peter Thornton (London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984), 172, pl. 217
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