Balcony Railing in Chapel, Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux
date: label: Date
content: June 17, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet illustrating a balcony, an example of one of its balusters, and profiles of three different moldings. The balcony consists of three sections: a a balustrade of three balusters alternating with a short column with an engaged half-baluster; a row of alternating carved rectangular and blind vertical panels, and molding course below. There is a small semicircular projection of the balcony out from the center, below which are curved brackets and a small finial. The baluster is created by inverting two gadrooned vases, the upper smaller than the one below. In the bottom half of the sheet is a scale drawing in graphite only, possibly illustrating short engaged columns with ornament. This drawing seems to be perpendicular to the one above.
place: label: made in
content: Chenonceaux, France
label: place depicted
content: Chenonceaux, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-219
objectType: label: Type
content: woodwork
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31.9 x 24.8 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.), irregular