Design for Dining Room Ceiling, Château de Cangé
second half 19th century
Medium
Pen and black ink, watercolor, gouache
Dimensions
7 1/16 x 6 7/8 in. (17.9 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.827.77
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Art Historical Context
This exquisite drawing, titled *Design for Dining Room Ceiling Château de Cangé*, created by French architects Jules-EdmondCharles Lachaise andène-Pierre Gourdet in second half of the th century. It presents a meticulously planned ornamental ceiling for the grand dining room of the Château de Cangé, a French manor reflecting the era's taste for lavish interiors. Such designs were essential blueprints for opulent châteaux, where ceilings served as canvases for elaborate decoration, blending functionality with splendor during France's Second Empire and Belle Époque periods. Executed in pen and ...
About the Artist
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet · 1897–1897
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, born Jules Lachaise on September 2, 1836, in Paris, emerged as a prominent French painter and draughtsman specializing in lavish interior decorations during the Second Empire and beyond. Little is known about his early life and formal training, though he married Berthe Gourdet in 1866, forging a close professional partnership with her brother, the decorator Eugène-Pi...