Elevation of an interior with a chimneypiece surmounted by a mirror and a second floor balcony
Medium
Pen and ink, graphite, and oil on tracing paper; mounted on wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 20 7/16 x 13 3/8 in. (51.9 x 33.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.827.290
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of 19th-century interior design with *Elevation of an Interior with Chimneypiece Sur by a Mirror and a Floor Balcony*, a collaborative drawing by architects Jules-Edmond- Lachaise and Eug-Pierre Gourdet (ca. 1830–97). This elevation—a precise, frontal view of a room's vertical layout—showcases a grand fireplace mantel crowned by an ornate mirror, flanked by elegant architectural details and a soaring second-floor balcony. Such designs evoke the opulent domestic spaces of Paris during the Second Empire and beyond, where symmetry, height, and lavish ornamentation symb...
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...