A dressing room interior whose walls and tented ceiling are covered in a delicate vine trellis-patterned textile. On dressing table at rear center, a porcelain pitcher and basin sit in front of a silver mirror in rococo-revival style, flanked by candelabra. Pitchers and basins, possibly of vincennes manufacture, on top of wash stand at right. A table covered with lace cloth at left, holds toilet accessories; brushes, mirrors, pots, and covered jars. A formal portrait on left wall might well be the owner of this opulent room. Dried flowers encased in glass domes on either side of portrait. A carpet divided into horizontal and octagonal fields holding neoclassical and neo-gothic motifs covers floor. Date: 1848. Dimensions: 32.3 x 26 cm (12 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.). Medium: brush and gouache, graphite on tan paper, watercolor. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling, 1848 (CH 18794669-2)
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