Design for a Bedroom
Charles Percier
1785–1838
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and wash and watercolor and laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11 7/8 x 21 1/4 in. (30.1 x 54 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1991
Accession Number
1991.1202
Tags
BedroomsBeds
About the Artist
Charles Percier · 1764–1838
Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...