Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 1848
name: label: Artist
content: François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A dressing room interior whose walls and tented ceiling are covered in a delicate vine trellis-patterned textile. On dressing table at rear center, a porcelain pitcher and basin sit in front of a silver mirror in rococo-revival style, flanked by candelabra. Pitchers and basins, possibly of Vincennes manufacture, on top of wash stand at right. A table covered with lace cloth at left, holds toilet accessories; brushes, mirrors, pots, and covered jars. A formal portrait on left wall might well be the owner of this opulent room. Dried flowers encased in glass domes on either side of portrait. A carpet divided into horizontal and octagonal fields holding neoclassical and neo-gothic motifs covers floor.
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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: 2012-5-1
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 gouache, watercolor, graphite on tan paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.3 x 26 cm (12 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)