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Design for a Chair Back Cover with an Ornamental Frame Formed by a Garland of Leaves and Flowers with an Interlacing Ribbon that Forms a Bow from which a Crown Motif with a Monogram Hangs

Anonymous, French, 19th century

1870–1900 (?)

Design for a Chair Back Cover with an Ornamental Frame Formed by a Garland of Leaves and Flowers with an Interlacing Ribbon that Forms a Bow from which a Crown Motif with a Monogram Hangs by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Medium

Watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (14.9 × 12.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Accession Number

49.50.185(a)

About the Artist

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1800–1900

**Anonymous, French, 19th Century (ca. 1800–1900)** The artist cataloged as Anonymous, French, 19th century embodies the enigmatic yet essential contributions of unidentified creators to France's vibrant 19th-century art world. Active roughly between 1800 and 1900, this figure—or potentially collective workshop—produced a diverse array of works amid the nation's transition from Neoclassicism thro...

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