Gilded-wood bench
before 1807
Medium
Gilded mahogany, modern wool cover and silk trims
Dimensions
wt. approximated: 29 9/16 × 50 × 24 1/2 in., 50 lb. (75.1 × 127 × 62.2 cm, 22.7 kg) width at feet: 45 3/4 in. (116.2 cm)
Classification
Woodwork-Furniture
Culture
British
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The James Parker Charitable Foundation Gift, 2014
Accession Number
2014.136
About the Artist
Thomas Hope
Thomas Hope (1769–1831) was born in Amsterdam into the illustrious Hope family of Scottish-Dutch merchant bankers, Hope & Co., as the eldest son of Jan Hope and Philippina Barbara van der Hoeven.) Following his father's death in 1784, the family amassed vast wealth from banking and art collecting, with Hope inheriting a passion for antiquities nurtured amid his parents' opulent estates like Groene...