Design for Two Chairs
date: label: Date
content: 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825
label: Attributed to
content: Georges Jacob, French, 1739–1814
label: Attributed to
content: Henri Jacob, 1753–1824
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left: Chair with sloped back, pierced horizontal panel, center medallion repeated on seat. Back legs curved, mask motifs at joint. Front legs decorated with five circular elements.
label: Description
content: Right: Chair with splayed legs, convex back, upper rail upholstered in green with scene of classical figures in white. Green upholstered seat.
place: label: Place
content: France
label: made in
content: Germany
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-133-3
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on white laid paper, ruled border in pen and black ink.
label: Dimensions
content: 21.2 x 34.1 cm (8 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)