Interior with Paintings and Objets d'Arts
1800–1860
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 in. × 8 1/16 in. (22.8 × 20.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.617.81
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Lady Sarah Caroline Sitwell’sInterior with Paintings and Objets d’Arts* offers a charming glimpse into a nineteenth-century domestic space filled with treasured works of art. Created between1800 and 186, this intimate watercolor captures the refined taste of the period, when collecting paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects a mark of cultural sophistication among the aristocracy. As a titled female artist, Sitwell participated in the vibrant tradition of amateur and professional women who used watercolor document their surroundings with both skill and personal insight. The medium itsel...