Design for a Bedroom
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
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...