A Salon in Restoration Taste
date: label: Date
content: early 1820s
name: label: Artist
content: Hilaire Thierry, French, active 1815–1825
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Detailed elements of the Empire period are executed by the artist. Buff walls banded in blue serve as the color scheme of the salon and the adjoining room.Heavily swagged curtains with fringed pelmets, blue upholstery, and a blue and gold tablecloth accent bare, highly polished floors. An overdoor panel carved with figures appears to have a bluish ground. A picture collection in heavily gilded frames lines the walls. A marble statue of Apollo Belvedere on a pedestal and a bronze clock flanked by candelbra in the form of a winged victory on the chimneypiece are similar to decorative elements used by Percier and Fontaine at Malmaison and Fontainbleau. A tea table set with porcelains and metalwork of the period is on the right.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Thaw Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2007-27-6
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, gouache on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.9 × 43.1 cm (11 × 16 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Frame: 48.9 × 63.5 × 2.5 cm (19 1/4 × 25 × 1 in.)