Studies for Two Armchairs (recto); sketches for Three Chairs and Parts of a Fourth (verso)

Charles Percier

ca. 1800–1805

Studies for Two Armchairs (recto); sketches for Three Chairs and Parts of a Fourth (verso) by Charles Percier

Medium

Graphite

Dimensions

4 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (11.8 x 20 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955

Accession Number

53.521.11

Tags

Chairs

About the Artist

Charles Percier · 17641838

Charles Percier (1764–1838) rose from humble origins in Paris, where his mother laundered for Marie-Antoinette and his father served as a porter at the Tuileries Palace, to become one of France's most influential neoclassical architects and designers. From age twelve, he attended a free drawing school for indigent students, honing his skills in the studio of painter Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée be...

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