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Drawing, View of a Masquerade Ball
This is a drawing. It was created by Jean-Charles Delafosse. It is dated 1770–80 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In 1905, the Hewitt sisters were introduced to Jean-Léon Decloux in Paris during one of their acquisitions trips. Decloux collected drawings, print albums, and decorative arts objects, and soon became one of their agents for purchasing works on paper. To cement the relationship, he quickly donated examples of French ornamental paneling. On Decloux’s recommendation, the Hewitt sisters encouraged the museum’s advisory council to purchase over 500 drawings from Decloux’s collection in 1911; in 1921, the museum acquired 413 albums of Decloux’s ornament prints and related preparatory drawings.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Let's Dance! .
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Drawing, View of a Masquerade Ball
- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-39
- Drawing, Design for a Decorative Ewer
- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-49
![Poster, 1960/61 Stadttheater Basel [Poster for the 1960-61 Season of the City Theater, Basel]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/357790_df97639d74565ca1_n.jpg "Poster, 1960/61 Stadttheater Basel [Poster for the 1960-61 Season of the City Theater, Basel]")
- Poster, 1960/61 Stadttheater Basel [Poster for the 1960-61 Season of the City...
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Ken Friedman.
- 1997-19-148
Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?
- photo-offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2009-20-2
- Poster, A Holiday Big Broadcast
- lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Art Chantry.
- 1995-69-44
- Sidewall (France)
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Harvey Smith.
- 1950-83-1
Its dimensions are
30.8 × 40.1 cm (12 1/8 × 15 13/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)
It has the following markings
Strasburg lily with pendant A (RB '45)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: J. ch. Delafosse.
Cite this object as
Drawing, View of a Masquerade Ball; Jean-Charles Delafosse (French, 1734–1791); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper ; 30.8 × 40.1 cm (12 1/8 × 15 13/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.) ; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-38
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Hewitt Sisters Collect and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
