Elevation of the corner of a room decorated with Renaissance-style murals and carved woodwork
Medium
graphite on tracing paper; glued to wove paper
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.827.378
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate 19th-century drawing titled *Elevation of the Corner of Room Decorated with RenaissanceStyle Murals and Car Woodwork*, was created collaboratively by French architects Jules-EdmondCharles Lachaise andène-Pierre Gourdet.ed in graphite on tracing paper and later glued to wove paper it exemplifies the precision of architectural drafting techniques used for interior design proposals. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department (acquired via the Dodge in 1967), this work captures a fanciful room corner alive with ornate details. The elevation showcases 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...