Design with putti
second half 19th century
Medium
Oil paint
Dimensions
Overall: 14 9/16 x 18 3/4 in. (37 x 47.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.827.507
Art Historical Context
"Design with Putti" is a charming 19th-century oil painting by French artists Jules-Edmond-Charlesachaise and Eugène Gourdet, created in second half of the century Measuring 14 9/16 x 18 3/4 inches, this work features playful putti—those endearing, chubby cherubs rooted in Renaissance and Baroque traditions. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department and classified as a drawing, likely served as a preparatory design or bozzetto, blending the fluidity of sketching with the richness of oil paint. In the context of 19th-century French art, such designs reflected a ...
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...