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Drawing, Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

This is a drawing. It was created by Jean-Claude Rumeau. It is dated 1807 and we acquired it in 2012. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This interior shows the use of a gilded frieze with motifs of urns, anthemia, and other neo-classical ornament that looks much like the frieze of the surtout de table featured in the center of the gallery. The swans above the frieze, a favorite motif of Empress Josephine, are also seen on the surtout de table.

It is credited Thaw Collection.

Its dimensions are

29 x 23.7 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 in. x 15 5/8 in. x 1 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in brush and black ink, lower left: Rumeau 1807

Cite this object as

Drawing, Bathroom and Boudoir Interior; Jean-Claude Rumeau; France; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper; 29 x 23.7 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 in. x 15 5/8 in. x 1 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Thaw Collection; 2012-5-4

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