Design for a Bedroom

Charles Percier

1785–1838

Design for a Bedroom by Charles Percier

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 · 17641838

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...

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