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The Salon in the Montpensier Wing, Palais Royal
Jules Frédéric Bouchetca. 1831
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This view of the long Salon shows a highly polished parquet floor, a symmetrical formal arrangement of neoclassical furniture, and a parade of crystal chandeliers and wall lights. The chimneypiece appears to be decorated with ormolu motifs of the period.
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- Title: The Salon in the Montpensier Wing, Palais Royal
- Creator: Jules Frédéric Bouchet
- Creator Lifespan: 1799/1860
- Date Created: ca. 1831
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor over graphite, brush and white gouache on tan wove paper
- Signed: Lower left: J. Bouchet
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Galerie Jacques Fischer, Paris
- Paper Support: Tan wove paper
- Inscribed: Lower center in margin: Petit Salon de l'appartement de l'aile de Montpensier
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.
- Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 28.3 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm (11 1/8 x 13 1/4 x 2 in.)Sheet: 16.5 x 23 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Charlotte Gere and Floramae McCarron-Cates, " House Proud, From Amateur to Professional and from Grand to Comfortable, " in 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), 32, fig. 4; 84, pl. 11.Gail S. Davidson, "Masterworks House Proud, Interiors from the Thaw Collection," Veranda (November-December 2008): 132-133; 238, illus. 132.
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