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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 Montpensier Wing of the Palais Royal in Paris shows an elegant room with three French doors leading to a courtyard. Sienna-colored tieback curtains coordinate with the tones of the upholstered Empire style furniture. Console tables on either side of the room are placed in front of tall mirrors which reflect gilt-bronze candelabra. Blue painted medallions in the Empire style decorate the upper border of the salon.
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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 white wove paper
- Signed: Lower left: J. Bouchet
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Galerie Jacques Fischer, Paris
- Paper Support: White wove paper
- 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: 18.2 x 24.4 cm (7 3/16 x 9 5/8 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. 3; 84, pl. 10.Gail S. Davidson, "Masterworks House Proud, Interiors from the Thaw Collection," Veranda (November-December 2008): 132-133; 238, illus. 132.
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